1997 No. 249
The Suckler Cow Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1997
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated1 for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 2 of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by that subsection and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
Title, extent and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Suckler Cow Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1997, shall extend to Great Britain and shall come into force on 28th February 1997.
Amendment to the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 19932
The Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 19933 shall be amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (2) of regulation 3—
3
Where any additional payment provided for by Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2443/96 providing for additional measures for direct support of producers' incomes or for the beef and veal sector4 is made to a successful applicant, then—
a
he shall be deemed to have applied for that payment under this regulation in the like manner that he applied for the premium concerned;
b
the application he is deemed to have made as aforesaid shall for the purposes of paragraph (2) of this regulation be regarded as one and the same as the application he did make and which attracted that additional payment; and
c
that additional payment shall for the purposes of regulations 3A to 12 (other than regulation 9(d)(ii)) be regarded as a payment of that premium.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)