Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Obligations of producers and purchasers with respect to registration and deliveries

26.—(1) Each direct seller shall register his quota with the Department.

(2) Each producer (within the extended meaning conferred by regulation 23(6)) who holds registered wholesale quota, including any producer who has temporarily ceased or who intends temporarily to cease making wholesale deliveries, shall register his quota with a purchaser and, if making deliveries, shall make them to a purchaser.

(3) Each purchaser shall maintain, in respect of all producers whose register entries include that purchaser’s name on the list referred to in regulation 23(2)(b)(vi)—

(a) a register corresponding to that maintained by the Department under regulation 23(2) in respect of that part of his purchaser quota attributable to each of those producers;

(b) a register of particulars of wholesale deliveries from each of those producers to that purchaser;

(c) the information required by paragraphs 2 to 5 of Article 14 of the Commission Regulation (which concerns the records required in connection with levy assessment); and

(d) a system approved by the Department for sampling the milk of each producer and determining its fat content.

(4) Each purchaser shall amend the register referred to in paragraph (3)(a) on each occasion when, under these Regulations, the equivalent register maintained by the Department is required to be amended in relation to producers registered in that purchaser’s register.