The Habitat (Water Fringe) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Amendment to regulation 10 of the principal Regulations

10.  In regulation 10 (withholding and recovery of aid and termination) of the principal Regulations, after paragraph (4), there shall be added the following paragraph—

(5) Where a beneficiary, in his area aid application in any year, counts an area of water fringe which is arable land as being set aside for the purposes of the set-aside requirement and that land, on the date of the submission of the area aid application, is neither set-aside land nor land which is being treated as set-aside land pursuant to regulation 7A, the Minister may recover from that beneficiary an amount not exceeding the difference between the aid paid to that beneficiary under regulation 7 that year and the amount that would have been paid to him under regulation 7 that year if that land had been set-aside land.