Chapter 2: Direct Payments After EU Exit Section 13: Power to provide for lump sum payments in lieu of relevant payments
Section 13 provides a power to the Secretary of State to offer farmers the opportunity of taking a lump sum payment in place of the relevant payments they would otherwise have been entitled to receive during the agricultural transition period.
	Subsection (1) empowers the Secretary of State to make provision in regulations to offer a lump sum payment to eligible persons.
	Subsection (2) sets out conditions for eligibility for the lump sum payment. Eligible persons must apply for it; must be entitled to a relevant payment (which section 7(7) defines as either a Direct Payment under the basic payment scheme or a delinked payment) in respect of a year within the agricultural transition period (except for the last year of that period); and must meet any other eligibly criteria set out in regulations.
	Subsection (3) sets out that those persons choosing the lump sum would do so in forfeiture of continued relevant payments (which section 7(7) defines as either a Direct Payment under the basic payment scheme or a delinked payment) during the agricultural transition period.
	Subsection (4) provides the Secretary of State with the power to set the circumstances in which a lump sum payment is to be paid.
	Subsection (5) provides that regulations made under this section are to be subject to affirmative resolution procedure.