The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Made: 20th February 1990

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[^f00001] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[^f00002] 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 1990 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Amendment of the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984

2

The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984[^f00003] shall be further amended in accordance with regulation 3 below.

3

In paragraph (3)(a) of regulation 3 (compensatory allowances), for the figure “£6.75” there shall be substituted the figure “£7.50”.

Signed

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 20th February 1990.

John Selwyn Gummer — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 20th February 1990

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 implemented part of Council Directive No. 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 (O.J. No. L93, 30.3.85, p. 1), on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures, as amended.

The Regulations increase the compensatory allowances payable under the principal Regulations in respect of ewes of an approved breed in specially qualified flocks.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to the 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) 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.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1984/2024, amended by S.I. 1985/2075, 1987/2129, and revoked, insofar as they applied to Northern Ireland, by S.R. (N.I.) 1987 No. 92.