The Organic Farming (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/2933
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Organic Farming (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 24th November 1999.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulation “the principal Regulations ” means the Organic Farming Regulations 1999 .

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these regulations.

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 6A (“Closing date for accepting applications for aid”) of the principal Regulations—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “5th October” there shall be substituted “1st December”; and

(b) after paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(4) For the purpose of calculating the period of three months referred to in regulation 6(2) in relation to any application which, prior to 24th November 1999, the Minister was precluded from accepting by virtue of paragraph (1), the Minister shall not take into account the period beginning on 5th October 1999 and ending on 23rd November 1999 “or” (if earlier) the date on which the application is received.