Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 392

AGRICULTURE

The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

1st March 1991

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, being Ministers 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 Economic Community, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations, a draft of which has been approved by each House of Parliament:

Extent, citation and commencement

1. These Regulations, which extend to Great Britain, may be cited as the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984(3).

Further amendment of the principal Regulations

3. The principal Regulations shall be further amended in accordance with regulation 4 below.

4. In regulation 3 (compensatory allowances):

(a)in paragraph (2)(a) and (b)(i), for "£54.50 or 101 ECU" each time it appears there shall be substituted "£63.30 or 102 ECU";

(b)in paragraph (2)(b)(i), for "£62.48 or 101 ECU" there shall be substituted "£62.48 or 102 ECU", and for "£2.25 or 15.15" ECU there shall be substituted "£2.45 or 15.30 ECU";

(c)in paragraph (2)(b)(ii) and (c), for "£27.25 or 101 ECU" each time it appears there shall be substituted "£31.65 or 102 ECU";

(d)in paragraph (3)(a), for "£7.50 or 15.15 ECU" there shall be substituted "£8.75 or 15.30 ECU";

(e)in paragraph (3)(b)(i) and (ii), for "£4.50 or 15.15 ECU" each time it appears there shall be substituted "£4.90 or 15.30 ECU";

(f)in paragraph (3)(b)(ii) and (iii), for "£2.25 or 15.15 ECU" each time it appears there shall be substituted "£2.45 or 15.30 ECU"; and

(g)in paragraph (4)(a) and (b), for the words "or 101 ECU" each time they appear there shall be substituted "or 102 ECU".

5. The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1990(4) are hereby revoked.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 1st March 1991.

L.S.

Trumpington

Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Strathclyde

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

1st March 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to Great Britain, further amend the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984 ("the principal Regulations"), which implement part of Council Directive 75/268/EEC (O.J. No. L128, 19.5.75, p.1) on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas, and comply with Articles 13 to 15 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 797/85 (OJ No. L93, 30.3.85, p.1), on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures, as amended.

The Regulations increase, on average by 14%, the compensatory allowances payable under the principal Regulations in respect of breeding cows in regular breeding herds, ewes in qualified flocks and ewes of an approved breed in specially qualified flocks (regulation 4).

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(2)

1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act, which is to be read, as regards England and Wales, with sections 37, 40 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 52(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33) and S.I. 1984/447, and as regards Scotland, with sections 289F and 289G of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), as inserted by section 54 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982, and with S.I. 1984/526.

(3)

S.I. 1984/2024, amended by S.I. 1985/2075, 1987/2129 and 1990/308, and revoked, insofar as they applied to Northern Ireland, by S.R. (N.I.) 1987 No. 92.

(4)

S.I. 1990/308.