{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suckler-cow-premium-regulations-1982/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suckler-cow-premium-regulations-1982/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1683",
  "legislation_title": "The Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suckler-cow-premium-regulations-1982",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Recovery of premiums",
  "text": "(1) Where any person with a view to obtaining the payment to himself or to any other person of any premium—\n(a) makes any statement which is untrue or misleading in a material respect, or\n(b) furnishes to the competent authority any inaccurate information,\nthe competent authority shall be entitled to recover on demand as a civil debt the whole or any part of any premium paid to him or to any other person by reason of the making of the said statement or the furnishing of the said information. In such a case the competent authority shall be entitled to recover the premium from the person to whom the premium was paid.\n(2) Where any producer—\n(a) having given an undertaking under Article 2(2) of the principal Council Regulation, fails in any way to comply with that undertaking, or\n(b) fails to satisfy the competent authority with regard to the matters mentioned in Article 2(1) of the principal Council Regulation, or\n(c) fails to grant permission to or to assist an authorised officer for the purposes of regulation 5 of these regulations,\nthe competent authority shall be entitled to recover on demand as a civil debt from the producer the whole or any part of any premium paid to him.\n(3) Where any successor of a producer, having given an undertaking under Article 4(3) of the Commission Regulation, fails in any way to comply with that undertaking or fails to grant permission to or to assist an authorised officer for the purposes of regulation 5 of these regulations the competent authority shall be entitled to recover on demand as a civil debt from the successor an amount equal to the whole or any part of any premium paid to the producer.\n(4) Where any person in charge of cattle on land fails to assist an authorised officer for the purposes of regulation 5 of these regulations the competent authority shall be entitled—\n(a) where such a person was at the time of such failure in charge of cattle kept by a producer, to recover on demand as a civil debt from that producer the whole or any part of any premium paid to that producer;\n(b) where such a person was at the time of such failure in charge of cattle kept by the successor of a producer, to recover on demand as a civil debt from that successor an amount equal to the whole or any part of any premium paid to the producer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1683/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:11:19.079528+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."
}