Regulation 6 Recovery of premiums

(1)

Where any person—

(a)

with a view to obtaining the payment to himself or to any other person of a premium payable under the Regulation of the Council—

(i)

makes any statement which is untrue or misleading in a material respect, or

(ii)

furnishes to the competent authority any inaccurate information, or

(b)

having given an undertaking under Article 3(1) or Article 11 of the Regulation of the Council, fails in any way to comply therewith, or

(c)

in an appropriate case, fails to satisfy the competent authority with regard to the matters referred to in Article 3(2) of the Regulation of the Council,

the competent authority shall be entitled to recover on demand as a civil debt the whole or any part of any premium paid to him or to any other person.

(2)

Where a beneficiary ceases farming in accordance with the provisions of Council Directive No. 72/160/EEC of 17th April 1972^f1 (which formulates measures designed to encourage the cessation of farming and the reallocation of utilised agricultural areas for the purposes of structural improvement), the competent authority shall be entitled to recover from him on demand as a civil debt the amount of any premiums paid to him under the Regulation of the Council during the nine months immediately preceding the date on which his request to cease farming was made under that Directive.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: (OJ/SE 1972 (II) p. 332).