The Sheep and Goats Identification (Wales) Regulations 2000

Amendment to the Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992

23.—(1) The Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In paragraph (5)(a) of regulation 5 substitute “regulation 5 of the Sheep and Goats Identification (Wales) Regulations 2000(2) (“the Identification Regulations”)” for “article 5 of the Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1996 (“the 1996 Order”)”.

(3) The following regulation shall be substituted for regulation 8A –

“Failure to comply with the Identification Regulations

8A.  Where at any time during a marketing year a producer fails to comply with regulation 5 of the Identification Regulations, the competent authority may withhold or recover on demand the whole or any part of any premium payable or as the case may be paid to the producer in respect of that marketing year.”.