The Fishery Products (Official Controls Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 2005

Collection and remittance of charges relating to preparation or processing establishments

19.—(1) Within 7 days of the end of each account period in which fishery products have entered a preparation or processing establishment, the proprietor or operator who is responsible for paying the charge under regulation 17 relating to that establishment shall make a written return in respect of that charge to the relevant food authority to which it is payable.

(2) The return shall give information which relates to the fishery products which have entered that establishment during that account period.

(3) A return made under this regulation shall include the following information–

(a) the account period to which the return relates;

(b) the weight of the fishery products entering the establishment;

(c) the amount of any reduction made under regulation 18, specifying under which of paragraphs (a) or (b) of that regulation that reduction has been made; and

(d) the amount of the charge payable under regulation 17.

(4) During the period of 1 year beginning on the day on which a proprietor or operator makes a return under this regulation–

(a) the relevant food authority to which the return was made may require the proprietor or operator to provide separate information of the kind required by paragraph (3) in respect of each batch of fishery products included in it; and

(b) the proprietor or operator shall retain records which are sufficient to enable any such information to be supplied.