{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-cessation-of-production-scotland-scheme-1987/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-cessation-of-production-scotland-scheme-1987/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Milk (Cessation of Production) (Scotland) Scheme 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-cessation-of-production-scotland-scheme-1987",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Recovery of compensation",
  "text": "(1) Where any person with a view to obtaining the payment of compensation to himself or any other person–\n(a) makes any statement which is untrue or misleading in a material respect, or\n(b) furnishes to the Secretary of State any inaccurate information,\nthe Secretary of State shall be entitled to recover on demand the whole or any part of any compensation paid to him or to such other person.\n(2) Where any person, having given an undertaking in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4(1)(a) or (b)(ii), fails in any way to comply with that undertaking, the Secretary of State shall be entitled to recover from him on demand the whole or any part of any compensation paid to him or to any other person in respect of quota registered in that person’s name.\n(3) Where any person–\n(a) intentionally obstructs an authorised officer in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2(1) of the Act, or\n(b) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement of this Scheme,\nthe Secretary of State shall be entitled to recover on demand the whole or any part of any compensation paid to that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/882/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:26:32.277299+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."
}