The Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 No. 248

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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2015 No. 248

Agriculture

The Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Made

13th May 2015

Coming into operation

4th June 2015

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is a department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union and in relation to matters relating to the promotion of rural development.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as The Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 and shall come into operation on 4th June 2015.

Amendment to the Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

2.  For Regulation 11 (3) of the Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015(3) substitute

"(3) For the purposes of this regulation, interest shall be charged from the payment deadline as recorded in the recovery notice issued by the Department.

(3A) For the purposes of paragraph (3) the payment deadline shall be set at 60 days from the date of the recovery notice issued by the Department."

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 13th May 2015

Legal seal

Norman Fulton

A senior officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 11 (3) of The Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 in relation to the interest on undue payments of less favoured area compensatory allowances recovered from a beneficiary by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. This interest is to be applied between the deadline for payment set in the recovery notice and the date of the recovery of the payments in question. The payment deadline must be 60 days after the date of the recovery notice.

(1)

S.I. 2000/2812 and S.I. 2000/3238 to which there are amendments not relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations


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