The Milk and Dairies and Milk (Special Designation) (Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2900

FOOD

The Milk and Dairies and Milk (Special Designation) (Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made

19th December 1991

Laid before Parliament

23rd December 1991

Coming into force

14th January 1992

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4(1), 6(4), 16, 18 and 45 of the Food Safety Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 48 of the said Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the Regulations:–

Title, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Milk and Dairies and Milk (Special Designation) (Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 14th January 1992.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

Amendment of the Milk and Dairies and Milk (Special Designation) (Charges) Regulations 1990

2.  The Milk and Dairies and Milk (Special Designation) (Charges) Regulations 1990(2) (“the Milk Charges Regulations”) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Amendment of regulation 2

3.  In regulation 2(1) of the Milk Charges Regulations the definition of “follow-up visit” shall be deleted, and so shall the remainder of the sub-paragraph ending in the words “sampling dairy farm visit” within which that definition appears.

Replacement of Schedule

4.  For the Schedule to the Milk Charges Regulations there shall be substituted the new Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 17th December 1991

L.S.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Stephen Dorrell

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health

19th December 1991

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

17th December 1991

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE NEW SCHEDULE TO THE MILK AND DAIRIES AND MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) (CHARGES) REGULATIONS 1990

Regulation 3

“SCHEDULE

Matter	Charge
	£
1. General dairy farm visit
(a) higher rate of charge;	92.00
(b) lower rate of charge.	71.00
2. Sampling dairy farm visit.	47.00”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply to England and Wales, further amend the Milk and Dairies and Milk (Special Designation) (Charges) Regulations 1990 as amended. The Regulations impose revised charges for visits to dairy farms by persons authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales for the purpose of ascertaining whether provisions of the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations 1959 and the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1989 are being complied with. There is provision for charging at a lower rate in specified circumstances where the number of cows kept for milking purposes is less than 20. The charges are set out in the Table below:–

Matter	Charge under 1990 Regulations before amendment by these Regulations	Charge under 1990 Regulations following amendment by these Regulations
A. Dairy farm visit other than a dairy farm visit for the sole purpose of taking samples of milk or of water or both:
higher rate of charge	£87.00	£92.00
lower rate of charge	£67.00	£71.00
B1. Dairy farm visit for the sole purpose of taking samples of milk or of water or both	£35.00	£47.00
B2. First follow-up visit for the sole purpose of taking such samples	–	£47.00
B3. Each subsequent follow-up visit for the sole purpose of taking such samples	£23.00	£47.00

(1)

1990 c. 16.

(2)

S.I. 1990/1584, amended by S.I. 1990/2486.