Article 4 Incentive payments in respect of eligible cows

(1)

Incentive payments may be made by the appropriate Minister in accordance with the provisions of this scheme in connection with the eradication of brucellosis from herds of cattle.

(2)

Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (4) below the appropriate Minister may make to the owner of an eligible herd one incentive payment in respect of each eligible cow which is in the herd on a qualifying day falling within the period of qualification relating to that herd, and which has been comprised in that herd throughout the six months immediately preceding that qualifying day, or, in the case of a replacement cow, throughout such shorter period as the appropriate Minister, having regard to the time in the herd of the cow replaced, may allow.

(3)

The amount of each incentive payment shall be £5.

(4)

No payment shall be made under this scheme—

(a)

in respect of a herd which for the time being qualifies under the Brucellosis (Beef Incentives) Payments Scheme 1972^f1, as amended^f2, for incentive payments, as defined in that scheme; or

(b)

in respect of a herd which for the time being qualifies under the Brucellosis (Payments for Cows in Accredited Herds) (Scotland) Scheme 1970^f3, as amended^f4, for incentive payments, as defined in that scheme;

(c)

as regards any one herd, in respect of more than five qualifying days.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: (1972 II, p. 4010).
f2: S.I. 1975/2211 (1975 III, p. 8320).
f3: (1970 III, p. 4789).
f4: S.I. 1971/1072, 1973/644 (1971 II, p. 3204; 1973 I, p. 2007).