8. In regulation 16 (conversion of quota)—
(a)in paragraph (4), for the words “paragraph (5)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (5) and (6)”;
(b)for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—
“(5) Where, upon application to the Intervention Board by a producer who has permanently converted quota in any quota year, the Intervention Board is satisfied that exceptional circumstances of a type described in regulation 11(8) have resulted in a significant fall in milk production or a significant failure to achieve a planned increase in milk production and it is of the opinion that such could have been neither foreseen nor avoided by the producer at the time of his permanent conversion, it may, in the same quota year in which the permanent conversion occurred, release that producer from the restriction in paragraph (4), and such release shall be to the extent that is required so as to allow the transfer of the amount of quota that the Intervention Board considers has remained unused in the particular case.
(6) The restriction in paragraph (4) shall not apply to any producer who, in the immediately preceding quota year, has temporarily converted quota.”.