Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 27th February 1998.
Interpretation
2. The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954() shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Amendment
3.—(1) The Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996() shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation) the definitions of “the 1984 Regulations” and of “the 1993 Suckler Cow Regulations” shall be revoked.
(3) In paragraph (4) of regulation 2 there shall be substituted for the phrase “these regulations” the second time it occurs the following—
(4) In paragraph (1A) of regulation 3 (compensatory allowances for breeding cows and ewes)—
(a)there shall be substituted for “the 1997 Scheme year” the phrase “the 1998 Scheme year”;
(b)in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b)(i), for “£97·50” there shall be substituted “£47·50”;
(c)in sub-paragraph (b)(i), for “£121·49” there shall be substituted “£88·70”;
(d)in sub-paragraphs (b)(ii) and (c), for “£69·75” there shall be substituted “£23·75”.
(5) In paragraph (1B) of regulation 3—
(a)there shall be substituted for “the 1997 Scheme year” the phrase “the 1998 Scheme year”;
(b)in sub-paragraph (b)(ii)(aa), for “£121·49” there shall be substituted “£88·70”.
(6) In paragraph (2) of regulation 3 for “, the 1992 Regulations or the 1984 Regulations” there shall be substituted “or the 1992 Regulations”.
(7) In paragraph (3) of regulation 3 the phrase “Subject to paragraph (3A),” shall be revoked.
(8) Paragraph (3A) of regulation 3 shall be revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on
L.S.
Evelyn Cummins
Assistant Secretary
6th February 1998.