Red Meat Industry (Wales) Measure 2010

5 Levies imposed on slaughterers or exporters — calculating the levy and payment

(1) A levy imposed on slaughterers or exporters for any period is calculated by reference to the number of chargeable cattle, sheep or pigs.

(2) In Schedule 2—

(a) Part 1 makes further provision about how levies must be calculated, and

(b) Part 2 provides for the date by which levies must be paid.

(3) In respect of levies imposed on slaughterers or exporters, the Welsh Ministers may make regulations about procedures relating to—

(a) the imposition of levies (including notification to persons liable to pay a levy of the amount which they are required to pay), and

(b) payment and collection of levies.

(4) The Welsh Ministers may, by order, amend Schedule 2 by—

(a) amending or omitting provisions;

(b) adding provisions; or

(c) amending or omitting any provisions which have been added.

(5) In this Measure “chargeable cattle, sheep or pigs” (“gwartheg, defaid neu foch y gellir codi ardoll amdanynt”), in respect of any period for which levy is imposed—

(a) in relation to a slaughterer, means cattle, sheep or pigs slaughtered by the slaughterer in that period; and

(b) in relation to an exporter, means cattle, sheep or pigs exported by the exporter in that period.