This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 1998/3169 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
1999 No. 8
AGRICULTURE
The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1999
Made 7th January 1999
Laid before Parliament 13th January 1999
Coming into force 15th January 1999

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly in the 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:
S.I. 1972/1811.
1972 c. 68.

Title and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1999, and shall come into force on 15th January 1999.

2. The Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996 shall be amended in regulation 2(3) by the substitution, for the words “the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997”, of the words “ the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1998 ”.
S.I. 1996/3142, amended by S.I. 1997/2969 and S.I. 1998/3169.
S.I. 1998/3169.
Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
7th January 1999
Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
7th January 1999

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend, with effect from 15th January 1999, the Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/3142) (“the principal Regulations”), as amended by the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2969) and the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/3169). The principal Regulations, as amended, implement Council Regulation 1765/92 (OJ No. L181, 1.7.92, p. 12), which establishes a support system for producers of certain arable crops, and Commission Regulations 334/93 (OJ No. L38, 16.2.93, p. 12), 762/94 (OJ No. L90, 7.4.94, p. 8), 658/96 (OJ No. L91, 12.4.96, p. 46) and 1586/97 (OJ No. L215, 7.8.97, p. 3). The principal Regulations extend to Great Britain.
The effect of the amendment made by these Regulations is that references in the principal Regulations to a Community instrument are to that instrument as amended at the date that the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1998 were made.
No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.