Paragraph 4 I1

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the average price shall be such amount as may be obtained by dividing the total amount of the prices shown in returns, furnished under paragraph 2, for a 4 week period as having been paid for F1reference animals by the total number of the reference animals stated in those returns to have been sold.

Before the Department proceeds to make a calculation of an average price it shall have obtained returns for sales of not less than 100 reference animals during a 4 week period.

Where in any 4 week period the requirements of sub-paragraph (2) are not met, the average price for that 4 week period shall be the same amount as the most recent average price calculated in accordance with sub-paragraphs (1) and (2).