{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-livestock-compensatory-allowances-regulations-1992/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-livestock-compensatory-allowances-regulations-1992/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/269",
  "legislation_title": "The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hill-livestock-compensatory-allowances-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provisions with respect to cattle",
  "text": "(1) A compensatory allowance for cattle shall not be paid in respect of any breeding cow the use of which for breeding would not, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, be in accordance with sound husbandry practice.\n(2) Where, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, an appreciable quantity of milk has been produced by a regular breeding herd in the period of 12 months immediately preceding the qualifying day, and any of that milk has been sold or used for the manufacture of milk products for sale, a compensatory allowance shall be payable in relation to that qualifying day in respect of the number of breeding cows comprised in the herd on that day, reduced by such number as appears to the appropriate Minister to be the number of cows in the herd required to produce that quantity of milk in that period.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (1) and notwithstanding paragraph (2) and the foregoing provisions of these Regulations, the number of breeding cows in respect of which a compensatory allowance may be paid in relation to any qualifying day shall not exceed—\n(a) the number of breeding cows which the appropriate Minister may determine as the number which he is satisfied has been comprised in the herd throughout the greater part of the year preceding the qualifying day or, in the case of a herd newly established or re-established in that year, throughout such shorter period thereof as the appropriate Minister may determine, disregarding—\n(i) any seasonal variation in number, and\n(ii) any losses which he is satisfied have been or will be made good, or cannot reasonably be made good, within a reasonable period;\n(b) the number of breeding cows which, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, is reasonable, having regard to the number of calves produced in the year preceding the qualifying day or, in the case of a herd newly-established or re-established in that year, in such shorter periodas the appropriate Minister may determine;\n(c) the number of breeding cows which the appropriate Minister determines to be the number which the land on which the herd was grazed and maintained in the year preceding that day was, in his opinion, capable of carrying without overgrazing the whole or any part of it, taking into account the number of other animals grazed and maintained on that land in that year; or\n(d) the number of breeding cows which when added to the number of ewes in a qualified flock grazed and maintained on that land is equivalent to the maximum number of livestock units per hectare of the forage area of the holding permitted in respect of the grant of a compensatory allowance by article 19(a) of the Council Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/269/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:29:34.421250+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."
}