The Dairy Produce Quotas (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/250
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Dairy Produce Quotas (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 28th February 1997.

Section 2 Amendment of the Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1994

(1) the Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1994 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.

(2) In paragraph (8) of regulation 13 (transfer of quota without transfer of land)—

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (f) “and” shall be deleted; and

(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (g) there shall be added “; and” followed by the following sub-paragraph:

(h) the circumstances that the Minister has caused animals forming part of the dairy herd to be slaughtered under the powers conferred on him by section 32(1)(b) of the Animal Health Act 1981 as animals having been exposed to the infection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

(3) In regulation 18 (conversion of quota), after paragraph (4), there shall be added the following paragraph:

(5) Where under the powers conferred on him by section 32(1)(b) of the Animal Health Act 1981, the Minister has caused animals forming part of a producer’s dairy herd to be slaughtered as having been exposed to the infection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, paragraph (4) above shall not apply to that producer.