{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-produce-quotas-amendment-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/534",
  "legislation_title": "The Dairy Produce Quotas (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-produce-quotas-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1986 (“the principal regulations”).\nThe arrangements dealing with the regions (regulation 6 of the principal regulations) are modified. Where the direct sale quota threshold imposed by the Community provisions is reduced, the necessary reductions will be made to the direct sale quota available in each region and a cutback will be applied proportionately to all direct sale producers within the region in question (regulation 4(1)). Where the Minister is obliged to reallocate wholesale quota among the regions and there is insufficient quota available in the running regional reserves, the necessary quota will be compulsorily acquired from producers pro rata and compensation may be paid (regulation 4(2)).\nThe arrangements for transfers of quota when a holding is sold, leased or transferred by inheritance are amended. The period of notification is extended to two months, and it is made clear that certain agreements (“exempt transfers”) will not transfer quota. Exempt transfers are a licence, a tenancy for less than ten months (in Scotland less than eight months and in Northern Ireland less than twelve months) and what was formerly described in the principal regulations as a “minor change of occupation” (regulation 5).\nArrangements are introduced to deal specifically with temporary transfers of quotas by producers with unused quota (quota leasing) in accordance with the amendment to Council Regulation 804/68 introduced by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2998/87 (O.J. No. L285, 8.10.87, p.1). Such agreements must be notified to the Minister before 31st July in the quota year in question (regulation 6).\nProvisions are introduced to allow a temporary reallocation of unused quota to be made to producers whose land is subject to a herd movement restriction notice and who therefore cannot reduce their herd numbers by sales of in-calf heifers (regulation 7).\nUpdating, consequential and drafting amendments are made to regulation 14, and Schedules 1, 2, 3, 4 and 17 (regulations 8 and 9).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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