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PART IIOFFICIAL CONTROLS CHARGES OTHER THAN CHARGES FOR DIRECT LANDINGS OF FISHERY PRODUCTS FROM THIRD COUNTRY VESSELS AND THIRD COUNTRY IMPORTS

Collection and remittance of the factory vessel charge

15.—(1) Within 7 days of the end of each account period in which fishery products in respect of which a charge is payable under regulation 13 have been landed from a factory vessel, the owner or master of the vessel who is responsible for paying that charge must make a written return in respect of it to the relevant food authority to which it is payable.

(2) The return must give information which relates to the landing of fishery products from a factory vessel during that account period or, if there has been more than one such landing, information in respect of the aggregate of them.

(3) A return made under this regulation must include the following information—

(a)the account period to which the return relates;

(b)the name of each factory vessel from which fishery products are landed and each place of landing;

(c)the number of landings during that account period;

(d)the weight of the fishery products landed;

(e)the amount of any reduction under regulation 14 which has been made, specifying under which of paragraph (a) or (b) of that regulation that reduction has been made; and

(f)the amount of the charge payable under regulation 13(1).

(4) During the period of 1 year beginning on the day on which a master or owner makes a return under this regulation—

(a)the relevant food authority to whom the return was made may require the master or owner to provide separate information of the kind required by paragraph (3) in respect of each landing included in it; and

(b)the master or owner must retain records which are sufficient to enable the supply of such information.