Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Retention of quota at the end of a tenancy

14.—(1) This regulation shall have effect as respects tenancies ending after 31st March 2005.

(2) Where –

(a) a tenant of any land in a holding has quota registered as available to him;

(b) the quota is so registered by virtue of a transfer referred to in regulation 13 the cost of which was not borne by the tenant’s landlord;

(c) the tenancy of the land in question expires without any possibility of renewal on similar terms;

(d) the tenant and his landlord have not agreed that, after the expiry of the tenancy, the quota should no longer be available to the tenant; and

(e) the tenant continues to be a producer after the expiry of the tenancy in relation to –

(i) another holding; or

(ii) another part of the holding of which the land formed part,

the tenant may submit a notice to the Department that the quota is to be available to him by virtue of his occupation of that other holding or that other part of the holding of which the land formed part.

(3) A notice submitted pursuant to paragraph (2) shall –

(a) be in such form as the Department may reasonably require;

(b) reach the Department no later than 31st March in the quota year in which the tenancy expires; and

(c) include a statement by the tenant –

(i) that he and his landlord have not agreed that, after the expiry of the tenancy, the quota should be registered in relation to the holding which then comprises or, as the case may be, includes, the land, stating the amounts of used and unused quota involved; and

(ii) that he continues to be a producer.