The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1993

Withholding or recovery of compensatory allowance

10.—(1) Where any person fails to comply with the terms of an undertaking given by him under regulation 3(2), which has not been released in accordance with regulation 9, the appropriate Minister shall be entitled to withhold or to recover on demand the whole or any part of any compensatory allowance payable or paid to him.

(2) Where an applicant, or an employee, servant or agent of an applicant, intentionally obstructs an authorised person, or a person accompanying such authorised person and acting under his instructions, from exercising any power conferred by regulation 7, or fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a request made by an authorised person when carrying out any such power, the appropriate Minister shall be entitled to withhold or to recover on demand from that applicant the whole or any part of any compensatory allowance payable or paid to him.

(3) Where any person, with a view to obtaining payment to himself or to any other person of a compensatory allowance, makes any statement or furnishes any information which is false or misleading in a material particular, the appropriate Minister shall be entitled to withhold or to recover on demand the whole or any part of any compensatory allowance payable or paid to him or to such other person.