{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-payments-scheme-1971/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-payments-scheme-1971/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1967",
  "legislation_title": "The Brucellosis Payments Scheme 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-payments-scheme-1971",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Beef incentive payments",
  "text": "(1) Incentive payments may be made by the appropriate Minister in respect of a herd which qualifies for subsidy payments under a hill cattle or beef cow scheme by way of supplement to such subsidy payments, and shall be subject to the terms and conditions governing the subsidy payments to which they are supplemental.\n(2) Such incentive payments may be made in respect of a herd when a qualifying day for the purposes of a hill cattle scheme or a prescribed date for the purposes of a beef cow scheme, as the case may be, falls within the appropriate qualifying period specified in paragraph 6 below.\n(3) The amount of any such incentive payment shall be £5 for each animal which qualifies for the subsidy payment to which the incentive payment is supplemental.\n(4) Where in the case of any herd (except such a herd as is referred to in paragraph 6(5) below) the period referred to in sub-paragraph (2) above contains only one qualifying day for the purposes of a hill cattle scheme, or only one prescribed date for the purposes of a beef cow scheme, and incentive payments made in respect of the herd are supplemental to subsidy payments made under that scheme, an additional incentive payment of £5 per animal may be made in respect of the first qualifying day or the first prescribed date, as the case may be, after the termination of that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1967/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:37:45.633927+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}