The Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1994

Payment of levy

22.—(1) For the purposes of Article 2(3) of the Council Regulation and Article 4 of the Commission Regulation (both of which deal with payment of levy by direct sellers), or Article 2(2) of the Council Regulation and Article 3 of the Commission Regulation (both of which deal with payment of levy by purchasers in respect of wholesale deliveries), levy shall be paid to the Intervention Board.

(2) Where any part of the levy remains unpaid after 1st September in any year, the Intervention Board may recover from the direct seller or (as the case may be) the purchaser the amount of the levy outstanding at that date together with interest in respect of each day thereafter until the said amount is recovered at the rate of one percentage point above the sterling three-month London interbank offered rate.

(3) For the purposes of the third subparagraph of Article 2(2) of the Council Regulation (which deals with set-off of levy liability), where a producer making wholesale deliveries to a purchaser exceeds his wholesale quota, adjusted, where appropriate, in accordance with Article 2(2) of the Commission Regulation, that purchaser may immediately deduct an amount corresponding to the amount of levy potentially payable by him in respect of the excess from the sums owed to the producer in respect of the deliveries.