{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-variable-premium-protection-of-payments-amendment-order-1983/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-variable-premium-protection-of-payments-amendment-order-1983/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1009",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep Variable Premium (Protection of Payments) (Amendment) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-variable-premium-protection-of-payments-amendment-order-1983",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order amends the Sheep Variable Premium (Protection of Payments) (No. 2) Order 1980 (“the principal order”) by inserting a requirement that animals certified as eligible for a premium payment shall within twenty-one days after the date of their certification be slaughtered, exported from Great Britain, or removed from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\nThis is implementation of Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 1689/83 which adds this requirement to Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2661/80 laying down detailed rules for applying the variable slaughter premium for sheep as paragraph 4 of Article 1 thereof.\nThe Order also provides for the enforcement of this requirement.\nArticle 3 contains the requirement itself, provides that notice thereof shall be given to anyone who purchases a certified animals, and prohibits the sale or holding of a certified animal after the expiry of the twenty-one day period.\nArticles 4 and 5 extend the provisions of the principal order concerning the keeping, retention and production of records in respect of sales and purchases of certified animals and remove the record-keeping provisions applying to certified carcases.\nArticle 2 corrects a small defect in the principal order.\nAny contravention or failure to comply with the provisions contained in this Order is an offence under section 7 of the Agriculture Act 1957.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1009/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:00:04.790657+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."
}