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The Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

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Exclusion of forage area

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8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if, on 31st March 2011, a claimant had available to him an individual milk quota, his relevant forage area shall be reduced by 1 hectare per 10,000 litres of that quantity for the purpose of determining his qualifying forage area.

(2) Where any holding in respect of which a claim has been made is a cross-border holding, the individual milk quota treated as applicable to that part of the claimant’s holding situated in Northern Ireland shall be calculated as follows—

where:

“X” is the claimed forage area in hectares of that part of the holding which is situated in Northern Ireland;

“Y” is the total claimed forage area in hectares of that holding;

“TIRQ” is the total individual milk quota available to the claimant in respect of that holding; and

“IRQ” is the individual milk quota which is treated as applicable to that part of the holding situated in Northern Ireland, and the reduction, for the purpose of this regulation, of the relevant forage area shall be 1 hectare per 10,000 litres of the individual milk quota treated as applicable to that part of the claimant’s holding situated in Northern Ireland.

(3) Where paragraph (1) or (2) applies, the reduction in the relevant forage area shall first be applied to land which is not eligible land, followed by disadvantaged land and lastly, severely disadvantaged land.

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