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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations introduce charges for the purposes of the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations 1959 (S.I. 1959/277) and the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/723), and for services performed under those Regulations.

A charge is to be made at the rate of £90 for each visit made by an authorised officer of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales to a registered dairy farm for the purpose of ascertaining whether the principal Regulations are being complied with. Where there are less than 20 cows, the charge is £80. A visit solely for the purpose of sampling milk or water or both is to incur a charge of £22 (regulation 3 and the Schedule).

Regulation 3(3) provides exemption for—

(a)

visits relating to particular threats to public health,

(b)

follow up visits,

(c)

visits relating solely to farmhouse catering licences,

(d)

visits relating to consents under section 42 of the Food Act 1984.

Unless the Minister and the Secretary of State determine otherwise, the Milk Marketing Board for England and Wales will be the collecting agency where they hold a sum sufficient to meet the charges (regulation 4).