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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-annual-premium-and-suckler-cow-premium-quotas-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2844",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep Annual Premium and Suckler Cow Premium Quotas Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-annual-premium-and-suckler-cow-premium-quotas-regulations-1997",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\n1 These Regulations (“the Regulations”) consolidate (with changes) the Sheep Annual Premium and Suckler Cow Premium Quotas Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1626, as amended by S.I. 1993/3036, S.I. 1994/2894 and S.I. 1996/1939).\n2 The Regulations, which extend to the United Kingdom as a whole, make provision for the administration of the quota system for sheep annual premium established by Articles 5a and 5b of Council Regulation 3013/89 and the quota system for suckler cow premium established by Articles 4(d) to 4(f) of Council Regulation 805/68. Definitions of references to those Council Regulations may be found in regulation 2(1) of the Regulations.\n3 The Regulations—\n(a) lay down rules for determining the location of a producer’s holding (regulation 3 as read with Schedule 1);\n(b) lay down rules for notifying transfers and leases of quota (regulation 4);\n(c) specify the proportion of quota that is transferred to the national reserve on a transfer of quota without a corresponding transfer of a holding (regulation 5(1));\n(d) specify a minimum level of suckler cow premium quota that small producers may transfer or lease out (regulation 5(2));\n(e) lay down rules for determining whether or not a producer has transferred quota without also transferring his holding (regulation 6 and Schedule 2);\n(f) lay down rules in relation to the place of origin, acquisition and use of quota from the national reserve (regulation 7);\n(g) specify that in certain cases quota may be transferred or leased between sensitive zones as defined by regulation 2(1) (regulation 8);\n(h) provide for the division of the national reserve into 6 divisions, each division to correspond with a sensitive zone (regulation 9);\n(i) provide for the distribution of quota in the national reserve into the aforementioned divisions (regulation 10);\n(j) lay down the principles governing allocations of quota from the national reserve (regulation 11; Schedules 3, 4 and 5);\n(k) establish a quota register and provide for the supply of copies of register entries in specified circumstances (regulations 12 and 13);\n(l) give specified persons a number of powers which may be used for the purpose of verifying an application for an allocation of quota from the national reserve (regulation 14));\n(m) create offences and penalties (regulation 15);\n(n) revoke S.I. 1993/1626, as amended (regulation 16).\n4 The principal changes of substance made by the Regulations are as follows:\n(a) the 2 sensitive zones into which Northern Ireland was formerly divided have been combined into a single sensitive zone;\n(b) the rules regarding the location of a holding situated in more than one sensitive zone which are set out in regulation 3 have been clarified;\n(c) revisions have been made to the conditions governing eligibility under categories III, group (b), IV and VI, group (a), of the national reserve which are set out in Schedule 3; to the rules for determining the amount of quota to which persons falling within those categories are entitled which are set out in Schedule 4; and to the test for determining when an allocation of quota from the national reserve is to be effective which is set out in Schedule 5.\n5 A regulatory appraisal has been prepared in respect of these Regulations. A copy of it has been deposited in the library of each House of Parliament.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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