{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-produce-quotas-regulations-1993/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-produce-quotas-regulations-1993/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/923",
  "legislation_title": "The Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-produce-quotas-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Conversion of quota",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of Article 4(2) of the Council Regulation (which deals with changes from direct sales to wholesale delivery and vice versa), the second subparagraph of Article 2(2) of the Council Regulation (which deals with replacements of purchasers) and this regulation, any producer may apply to convert, temporarily or permanently, direct sales quota for wholesale quota or wholesale quota for direct sales quota.\n(2) Where the producer wishes to convert quota temporarily in any quota year, or permanently, he shall make an application to do so on a form prescribed for that purpose by the Minister, and such application shalll—\n(a) state the amount (if any) of the producer’s direct sales quota, wholesale quota, direct sales and wholesale deliveries for the quota year in which the application is made, and the amount of unused quota which he holds at the time of the application which he wishes the Minister to convert; and\n(b) include such other information as the Minister may reasonably require in order to assess whether the provisions of Article 4(2) of the Council Regulation are fulfilled.\n(3) The application referred to in paragraph (2) above shall be made by the producer to the Minister by—\n(a) 31st December in any year in the case of permanent conversion of quota, or\n(b) a date determined by the Minister in respect of each quota year and published in the Gazette in the case of temporary conversion of quota,\nexcept that, in the case of an application which includes a request to convert wholesale quota to direct sales quota, the application shall be submitted by the appropriate date on behalf of the producer by the purchaser to whom deliveries have been made.\n(4) Where a producer has temporarily converted direct sales quota to wholesale quota, he may not make a temporary transfer of that quota.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/923/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:59:15.563377+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."
}