The Beef (Marketing Payment) Regulations 1996

Payment

3.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, the appropriate Minister may make a payment to a beef producer in respect of any heifer, steer or bull—

(a) kept prior to 20th March 1996 on a holding belonging to that producer;

(b) either—

(i) sold by that producer after 19th March 1996 and before 1st July 1996 for slaughter for human consumption; or

(ii) accepted from that producer for slaughter under the Bull Slaughter Scheme (Northern Ireland) 1996; and

(c) the carcase of which was, at the date of slaughter, within category A, B, C, or E as defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1208/81(1) determining the Community scale for the classification of carcases of adult bovine animals.

(2) A payment may be made at such time and in such amount as the appropriate Minister may determine.

(1)

OJ No. L123, 7.5.81, p. 3.