# The Beef Special Premium Regulations 2001, Regulation 13: Unsuitable supplementary feeding methods

Extent: E+W+S+NI

(1) Where, in any scheme year, the applicant uses unsuitable supplementary feeding methods, the appropriate authority may—
(a) in accordance with paragraph (2), reduce or withhold the amount of beef special premium otherwise payable to him; or
(b) where such premium has already been paid to him, recover any premium so paid, in respect of that scheme year.
(2) Where the applicant was not penalised for using unsuitable supplementary feeding methods under paragraph (1) nor under any of the provisions specified in paragraph (3) in the preceding scheme year, the amount of premium payable to him may be reduced by 10 per cent; where the applicant was so penalised in the preceding scheme year, but not in the scheme year before that, that amount may be reduced by 20 per cent; and where the applicant was so penalised in each of the two preceding scheme years that amount may be withheld.
(3) The provisions referred to in paragraph (2) are—
(a) regulation 12 of the Beef Special Premium Scheme Regulations 1996;
(b) regulation 3B of the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 1993;
(c) regulation 6 of the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 2001;
(d) where the Minister is the appropriate authority, regulation 9 of the Slaughter Premium Regulations 2000;
(e) where the National Assembly is the appropriate authority, regulation 9 of the Slaughter Premium (Wales) Regulations 2001;
(f) regulation 3B of the Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992; and
(g) regulation 8(3) of the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1999.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2503/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/beef-special-premium-regulations-2001/regulation-13
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