Part 6: Miscellaneous and general Chapter 1: Miscellaneous Section 81: Modifications to subsidies and schemes
This section establishes that changes to subsidies or schemes are regarded as being a new subsidy or scheme. Consequently, the public authority will have to comply with the subsidy control requirements.
	However, in relation to transparency requirements modifications only need to be uploaded as modifications under section 33(5), not as new subsidies or schemes under sections 33(1) or (3). Where the modification is a ‘permitted modification’ as defined under subsection (3) it is only the transparency requirements that apply, as they apply to other modifications, unless the kind of ‘permitted modification’ is otherwise exempt from subsidy control requirements, including from transparency requirements.
	This section also explains the definitions of ‘legacy subsidy’ and ‘legacy scheme’ that are found in section 48.