The Milk Quota (Calculation of Standard Quota) (Amendment) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 48

AGRICULTURE

The Milk Quota (Calculation of Standard Quota) (Amendment) Order 1990

Made

9th January 1990

Laid before Parliament

17th January 1990

Coming into force

6th February 1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in the case of land in England, and the Secretary of State, in the case of land in Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Agriculture Act 1986(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Application, title and commencement

1.  This Order, which applies to land in England and Wales, may be cited as the Milk Quota (Calculation of Standard Quota) (Amendment) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 6th February 1990.

Amendment of principal Order

2.  The Milk Quota (Calculation of Standard Quota) Order 1986(2) is hereby amended by substituting for the Schedule thereto the provisions contained in the Schedule to this Order.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

L.S.

John Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

8th January 1990.

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

9th January 1990

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Articles 3 and 4

“SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
	Severely disadvantaged land		Disadvantaged land		Other land
Breed	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)
	Quota/Hectare	Average Yield/Hectare	Quota/Hectare	Average Yield/Hectare	Quota/Hectare	Average Yield/Hectare
	Litres	Litres	Litres	Litres	Litres	Litres
Channel Island and South Devon, and breeds with similar characteristics	4,895	5,737	5,705	6,694	6,520	7,650
Ayrshire and Dairy Shorthorn and breeds with similar characteristics	5,590	6,562	6,520	7,656	7,460	8,750
Other	5,755	6,750	6,710	7,875	7,670	9,000”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Milk Quota (Calculation of Standard Quota) Order 1986, by substituting for the Schedule to that Order a new Schedule, in which the quota per hectare prescribed by article 3 of that Order is revised (article 2). Quota per hectare is prescribed for the purposes of calclating the payment which a tenant in England and Wales is entitled, in certain circumstances, to obtain from his landlord in respect of milk quota on the termination of the tenancy of the land, by Schedule 1 to the Agriculture Act 1986.

(1)

1986 c. 49

(2)

S.I. 1986/1530, amended by S.I. 1988/653