Rural Payments and Services

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The majority of Rural Payments and Services is © Crown copyright.

That means you may use and re-use any of the Crown copyright material featured here free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.

Where we do not own the copyright for a piece of content, we will state this. This includes logos and any material supplied by a third party.

You will need to check with the owner of material like this if you wish to use it.

If you need any further information, please contact psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk.

All Ordnance Survey data (maps) is covered by © Crown copyright and database right.

Ordnance Survey data is subject to additional licensing terms and conditions, which you can read using the link below.

Ordnance Survey licensing terms and conditions

By signing up to Rural Payments and Services you are agreeing to these terms and conditions.

These terms and conditions may change over time and it is your responsibility to regularly check and make sure that you have read the most up-to-date version.

However, we may also provide alerts when some parts of these terms and conditions are updated.

All maps in our system are for Rural Payments and Services purposes only and have no legal standing. They should not be used for any other purposes and do not represent the ownership of the land.

The postcode lookup facility we use contains data created and maintained by Scottish local authorities.

You’re free to link to this website from any other site – in fact we would encourage this! But please be aware that we cannot take responsibility for the content of any site that contains our link.

The Scottish Government publishes more than 1,000 items each year and makes all of its publications available on the Scottish Government website.

To find out more about Scottish Government publications, click below.

Scottish Government publications

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