Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Obligations of producers and purchasers with respect to registration and deliveries

6.—(1) Each –

(a) direct seller; and

(b) wholesale producer,

shall register his quota with the Department.

(2) Each purchaser shall maintain, in respect of all wholesale producers whose register entries include that purchaser’s name on the list referred to in regulation 4(4)(e) –

(a) a register corresponding to that maintained by the Department under regulation 4(3) in respect of that part of his purchaser quota attributable to each of those producers;

(b) a register of particulars of deliveries from each of those producers to that purchaser; and

(c) the information required by paragraphs 2 to 4 of Article 24 of the Commission Regulation (which concerns the records required in connection with levy assessment).

(3) Each person who holds registered wholesale quota, including any producer who has temporarily ceased or who intends temporarily to cease making deliveries, shall register his quota with a purchaser.

(4) Each purchaser shall maintain a system approved by the Department for –

(a) sampling the milk of each wholesale producer whose register entries include the purchaser’s name on the list referred to in regulation 4(4)(e); and

(b) determining its fat content.

(5) Each purchaser shall amend the register referred to in paragraph (2)(a) as directed by the Department on each occasion when he is notified by the Department that the equivalent register maintained by the Department has been amended in relation to wholesale producers registered in that purchaser’s register.