The Slaughter Premium (Wales) Regulations 2001

Unsuitable supplementary feeding methods

9.—(1) Where, in any calendar year, a claimant uses unsuitable supplementary feeding methods, the Board may—

(a) in accordance with paragraph (2), reduce or withhold the amount of slaughter premium otherwise payable to the claimant; or

(b) where slaughter premium has already been paid to the claimant, recover any slaughter premium so paid;

in respect of premium animals slaughtered in that year.

(2) Where the claimant was not penalised for using unsuitable supplementary feeding methods under paragraph (1) nor under any of the provisions specified in paragraph (3) in the preceding calendar year, the amount of slaughter premium referred to in paragraph (1) may be reduced by ten per cent; where the claimant was so penalised in the preceding calendar year, but not in the calendar year before that, that amount may be reduced by twenty per cent; and where the claimant was so penalised in each of the two preceding calendar years that amount may be withheld.

(3) The provisions referred to in paragraph (2) are—

(a) regulation 12 of the Beef Special Premium Scheme Regulations 1996;

(b) regulation 3B of the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 1993; and

(c) regulation 3B of the Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992.