Schedule 3 INTERIM PAYMENT: CALCULATION

The amount of the interim payment due to an entitled person in accordance with article 6 and payable in respect of the non-income losses of the kind referred to in paragraph 2(a) of Schedule 1 shall be the amount produced by the formula (B × £40) ÷ X, where—

• B equals the number of breeding females kept by the entitled person on 28th February 2001 or, if the entitled person’s premises were visited on behalf of the Minister by the Brown Rural Partnership on any other date in February 2001, the date of that visit; and

• X equals, as the case may be—

  1. (a)

     1, where the entitled person ceased to carry on his qualifying business not later than 30th September 2001;

  2. (b)

     2, where the entitled person ceased to carry on his qualifying business on or after 1st October 2001 but before the date on which this Order comes into force; or

  3. (c)

     6, where the entitled person ceases to carry on his qualifying business on or after the date on which this Order comes into force but not later than 31st December 2002.