Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020

Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision for the incorporation of the Direct Payments Regulation into domestic law; for enabling an increase in the total maximum amount of direct payments under that Regulation; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2020 c. 2
Introduced by	Theresa Villiers, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Commons); Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity (Lords)
Territorial extent	United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent	30 January 2020
Commencement	30 January 2020 (other than section 5)
Status: Current legislation
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020 (c. 2) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes provision for the continuation of the making farming subsidies to UK farmers.^[1] The act provided for the direct payment schemes under the EU Common Agricultural Policy to become part of domestic law on the date of the UK's exit from the EU.^[2]

At the time of the introduction of the legislation the government confirmed its intention to provided for a new system for farm subsidies following 2020 moving away from direct payments to a payment system based on the 'public goods' produced by farmers. Such changes were introduced to parliament in the Agriculture Bill 2019-21.^[1]