Regulation 18 Reserve funds

The Board shall maintain a special reserve fund (in these Regulations referred to as “the B Reserve Fund”) in accordance with the provisions of the approved scheme to which effect is given in Schedule 4.

The Board shall maintain a general reserve fund (in these Regulations referred to as “the general fund”), which shall include, for as long as it subsists, the Residuary Body Reserve. Unless otherwise required in accordance with paragraph (1) above, all moneys received by the Board shall be paid into the general fund and any moneys required by the Board for the discharge of their functions shall be paid out of that fund.

Any moneys for the time being standing to the credit of the general fund may be left in any bank or building society account or, if not for the time being required for the purposes of the functions of the Board, may be invested in such manner as they see fit.

If prior to finalisation of the special accounts mentioned in paragraph 53(1B) of the old marketing scheme (as preserved) the condition specified in paragraph (5) below applies, the Board shall withdraw the surplus funding from the Residuary Body Reserve and in determining the price which shall by payable under regulation 21(1)(e) shall include the surplus funding as an additional payment due to the end year producers.

The condition mentioned in paragraph (4) above is that the Board is satisfied that the withdrawal is called for by the approved scheme.

In this regulation–

• “the Residuary Body Reserve” means the retained reserve established by the Board prior to Vesting Day for the purposes set out in the approved scheme;

• “the surplus funding” means the amount which the Board consider falls to be withdrawn from the Residuary Body Reserve in accordance with the approved scheme.