Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Transfer of quota with transfer of land: general

9.—(1) Subject to regulations 14 and 16, this regulation shall apply for the purposes of Article 17 of the Council Regulation (which concerns the transfer of quota with a holding when the holding is sold, leased, transferred by inheritance or subjected to other cases of transfer involving comparable legal effects for producers) in respect of a transfer of a holding or part of a holding.

(2) The transferee of the holding or the part of the holding shall submit to the Department –

(a) a notice of transfer in such form; and

(b) such other information relating to the transfer,

as the Department may reasonably require.

(3) The notice of transfer shall reach the Department –

(a) in the case of a transfer made by lease, no later than 1st March in the quota year in which the transfer takes place; and

(b) in the case of a transfer made otherwise than by lease, no later than 31st March in the quota year in which the transfer takes place.

(4) The information referred to in paragraph (2)(b) shall reach the Department within such time as the Department may reasonably require.

(5) The notice of transfer shall include –

(a) statements from the transferor and transferee specifying the amounts of used and unused quota transferred;

(b) in the case of a transfer of part of a holding –

(i) statements from the transferor and transferee to the effect that they have agreed that the quota shall be apportioned taking account of the areas used for milk production as specified in the notice of transfer or that no such apportionment has been agreed; and

(ii) where such an apportionment has been agreed, a consent or sole interest notice, provided by the transferor in respect of the holding; and

(c) in the case of a transfer of the whole of a holding, a consent or sole interest notice, provided by the transferor in respect of the holding.