Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Annual declarations and summaries

35.—(1) If –

(a) a producer in whose name any direct sales quota is registered pursuant to regulation 4 fails to submit to the Department any declaration which he is required to submit by Article 11(2) of the Commission Regulation so that the declaration reaches it on or before 14th May in any year; or

(b) a purchaser fails to submit any summary which he is required to submit to it by Article 8(2) of the Commission Regulation so that the summary reaches it on or before 14th May in any year,

the Department may recover a reasonable charge from that producer or that purchaser, as the case may be, in respect of any visit to any premises which it reasonably considers an authorised officer should make in order to obtain the declaration or summary in question.

(2) If the Department sends to a purchaser a revised version of a summary submitted by him in accordance with Article 8(2) of the Commission Regulation, the purchaser shall submit either –

(a) confirmation that the revised version is agreed; or

(b) amendments to the revised version,

so that such confirmation or amendments, as the case may be, reaches the Department before the expiry of the period of ten working days beginning with the date on which the revised version was sent to the purchaser.

(3) In this regulation, “authorised officer” means a person (whether or not an officer of the Department) who is authorised by the Department, either generally or specifically, to act in matters arising under these Regulations and the Community legislation.