The Slaughter Premium Regulations 2000

Made: 24th November 2000

Laid before Parliament: 4th December 2000

Coming into force: 29th December 2000

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PART I — Introduction

Title and commencement

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Interpretation

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PART II — Conditions for payment of slaughter premium

Application of regulations 4 to 11 and 20 (where relating to Part II)

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Claims for slaughter premium

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Period for submitting claims

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Limit on number of claims

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Slaughter in registered slaughterhouses

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Overgrazing

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Unsuitable supplementary feeding methods

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Withholding and recovery of slaughter premium

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Rate of interest

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PART III — Registration of slaughterhouses

Application of regulations 13 to 19 and 20 (where relating to Part III)

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Application for registration

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Registration of slaughterhouses

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Breach of conditions of registration

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Cancellation of registration

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Cancellation procedure

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Display of notice of cancellation

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Registration following cancellation

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PART IV — Notices

Service of notices

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PART V — Enforcement

Application of regulations 22 to 31

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Retention of records

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Exercise of powers by authorised persons

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Powers of entry and inspection

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Powers in relation to documents

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Assistance to authorised persons

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Limits on powers of authorised persons

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Offences

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Penalties

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Time limit for prosecutions

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Offences by bodies corporate

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SCHEDULE — CONDITIONS TO BE COMPLIED WITH BYREGISTERED SLAUGHTERHOUSES

PART I — Conditions applicable to all premium animals

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PART II — Conditions applicable to premium calves slaughtered at five or six months old

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Signed

Joyce Quin — Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 2000-11-24

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811. The power of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to make, as a Minister designated in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, regulations which extend to Scotland remains exercisable by virtue of section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46). The Minister’s power to make, as a Minister so designated, regulations which extend to Wales is confirmed by Article 3(4) of the European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2788).

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1996/1686, revoked by S.I. 1998/871.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1996/3241, amended by S.I. 1999/1179.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1995/12, partially revoked by S.I. 1998/871.

[^f00006]: S.I. 1990/1867, amended by S.I. 1993/503 and revoked by S.I. 1995/12.

[^f00007]: OJ No. L391, 31.12.92, p. 36, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2801/1999 (OJ No. L340, 31.12.1999, p. 29).

[^f00008]: OJ No. L281, 4.11.1999, p. 30.

[^f00009]: OJ No. L118, 19.5.2000, p. 4.

[^f00010]: OJ No. L228, 8.9.2000, p. 25.

[^f00011]: OJ No. L117, 7.5.97, p. 1, repealed by Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L204, 11.8.2000, p. 1).

[^f00012]: OJ No. L160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.

[^f00013]: 2000 c. 7.

[^f00014]: S.I. 1993/1317, amended by S.I. 1994/1134, 1997/1148, 1999/1820 and 2000/2573.

[^f00015]: OJ No. L204, 11.8.2000, p. 1.

[^f00016]: S.I. 1993/1441, as amended by 1994/1528, 1995/15, 1995/1446, 1996/1488 and 1997/249.

[^f00017]: S.I. 1992/2677, as amended by 1994/2741, 1995/2779, 1996/49 and 1997/2500.

[^f00018]: S.I. 2000/2976.

[^f00019]: OJ No. L354, 30.12.97, p. 19.

Limit on number of claims

Slaughter in registered slaughterhouses

Overgrazing

Unsuitable supplementary feeding methods

Withholding and recovery of slaughter premium

Rate of interest

Editorial notes

[^key-a0b222dd179177fc48a823156858152b]: Regulations revoked (1.3.2005) by The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/219), regs. 1(1), 15(6), Sch. 3 (with reg. 15(8))

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