Amendment of the principal Regulations6

For regulation 4 (Scottish Islands areas) there shall be substituted the following regulation –

Scottish Islands areas4

1

Quota registered to direct sales quota holders and wholesale quota holders within a Scottish Islands area may be used by producers and purchasers only against direct sales or wholesale deliveries of milk produced within that Scottish Islands area.

2

Where a direct sales quota holder or wholesale quota holder has a part of his dairy enterprise outside a Scottish Islands area, he shall be treated for the purposes of this regulation as a direct sales quota holder or wholesale quota holder within a Scottish Islands area if he has 50 per cent or more of his dairy enterprise within that area.

3

Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the reallocation of quota undertaken in accordance with Schedule 2.

4

In this regulation –

a

“direct sales quota holder” means a person in whose name direct sales quota is registered;

b

“wholesale quota holder” means a person in whose name wholesale quota is registered.