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The Suckler Cow Premium (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

S.R. 1997/53 · Made 7 February 1997

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AGRICULTURE

Made 7th February 1997

Coming into operation 28th February 1997

The Department of Agriculture being a Department designatedf1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1972/1811

f2

1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), S.R. 1984 No. 253 and S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I. 15)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Interpretation
  3. 3Amendment to the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as The Suckler Cow Premium (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 28th February 1997.

2Interpretation

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954f1 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

3Amendment to the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993

The Suckler Cow Premium Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993f1 shall be amended by the insertion of the following regulation after regulation 10—

“11

Where any additional payments provided for by Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2443/96 providing for additional measures for direct support for producers' incomes or for the beef and veal sectorf2 are made to successful applicants, then—

(a)

the applicants concerned shall be deemed to have applied for those payments under regulation 3 as if they had applied for payments of premium; and

(b)

those payments shall for the purposes of regulations 3A to 10 be regarded as payments of premium.”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on

L.S.

P. T. Toal

Assistant Secretary

7th February 1997.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

1

These Regulations make an amendment to the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 (“the principal Regulations”).

2

The amendment is that, where the additional payments provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No. 2443/96 (O.J. L333, 21.12.96, p. 2) are made to successful applicants for suckler cow premium, these payments are treated for the purposes of those provisions of the principal Regulations which relate to financial control and enforcement as being suckler cow premium payments.

3

The legal base for the payment of suckler cow premium continues to be Article 4d of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 805/68 (O.J. No. L148, 28.6.68, p. 24) (O.J./SE 1968, vol. I, p. 187). Article 4d was inserted by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2066/92 (O.J. No. L215, 30.7.92, p. 49).