Amendment of the principal Regulations
6. For regulation 4 (Scottish Islands areas) there shall be substituted the following regulation –
“Scottish Islands areas
4.—(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.”.