{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-and-dairies-and-milk-special-designation-charges-amendment-regulations-1994/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-and-dairies-and-milk-special-designation-charges-amendment-regulations-1994/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1446",
  "legislation_title": "The Milk and Dairies and Milk (Special Designation) (Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-and-dairies-and-milk-special-designation-charges-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which apply to England and Wales, further amend the Milk and Dairies and Milk (Special Designation) (Charges) Regulations 1990, as amended, (“the Milk Charges Regulations”).\nThe Milk Charges Regulations are amended so as to provide for payment to the Minister on demand of charges for dairy farm visits which are currently recoverable on her behalf by the Milk Marketing Board (regulations 3 and 5).\nThe Regulations also—\n(a) abolish the lower rate of charge specified by the Milk Charges Regulations and restrict the exemption from charging (other than in relation to public health) to sampling dairy farm visits (regulation 4);\n(b) increase the charge for a general dairy farm visit to £94 (regulation 6).\nThe charge for a sampling dairy farm visit remains unchanged at £63.\nA compliance cost assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations and deposited in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies may be obtained from:\nMilk and Milk Products Division,\nMinistry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,\nRoom 519 Whitehall Place (East Block),\nLondon SW1A 2HH.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1446/note",
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  "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."
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