Article 5 Dairy incentive payments

(1)

Incentive payments in respect of a herd from which milk is produced shall be made by a board to the producer of that milk, if he is registered as a milk producer under the scheme constituting the board, at a rate of 0.8p for each gallon of milk which is—

(a)

produced from cows in the herd, and

(b)

made the subject of a payment to or by him under that scheme, and

(c)

either sold under the provisions of that scheme, or deemed for the purposes of any payments under the scheme to have been produced from that herd, during the appropriate qualifying period specified in paragraph 6 below.

(2)

Every board shall keep or cause to be kept records of payments made by them under this paragraph and of the administrative cost of making such payments in such form as may be approved by the appropriate Minister and shall make such records available for inspection at all reasonable times by any duly authorised officer, servant or agent of the appropriate Minister or the Comptroller and Auditor General.

(3)

Every board shall submit to the appropriate Minister, in such form as he may specify, a statement, certified by the board's auditors, of payments made by the board under this scheme and of the administrative cost of making such payments.

(4)

Any such statement as is referred to in the preceding sub-paragraph shall be rendered annually and at such lesser intervals, and covering such periods, as the appropriate Minister may specify in a written notice to that board.