The Farming for Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (2025 No. 40).

The Regulations establish the requirements that farmers hosting a learner event in their farm must meet to obtain support payments by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. The Scheme specifies the amounts of payments which may be made and the eligibility criteria to receive payments (regulations 3 and 4); provides for the Department to withhold or recover payment in specified circumstances (regulation 5); and provides for the review of a decision to reject an application (regulation 6). In particular regulation 4 establishes that a farm business which is responsible for managing a hosting event must in relation to receiving a hosting payment— (a)prepare the farm for a meeting ensuring that sufficient biosecurity measures and health and safety requirements are met; or (b)if their farm is not suitable due to biosecurity or health and safety reasons, the farm business must prepare an approved alternative venue, with approved supporting farm performance information, ensuring that sufficient biosecurity measures and health and safety requirements are met; and (c)collate and present approved farm performance information at a meeting.