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The Single Common Market Organisation (Exceptional Adjustment Aid) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Northern Ireland Statutory Rule 2017 No. 13 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
16 January 2017
In force from
1 February 2017
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs
Made under
European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations make provision for the implementation in Northern Ireland of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1613 of 8 September 2016 providing for exceptional adjustment aid to milk producers and farmers in other livestock sectors. Regulations 3, 4, 6 and 7 provide the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (‘the Department’) with the power to pay financial assistance to beneficiaries, for specified purposes. Regulations 5 and 8 provide the Department with the power to determine the form of an application for financial assistance. Regulation 9 allows for payments due to the Department from beneficiaries to be treated by the Department as debt. Regulation 10 sets out how interest to be charged on amounts owed to the Department as debt shall be calculated. Regulation 11 provides for debts owed to the Department to be deducted from future payments to that beneficiary. Regulation 12 provides powers of entry to land and premises for the purposes of enforcing these regulations to persons authorised by the Department. Regulation 13 sets out the powers of such authorised persons. Regulations 14 and 15 make it an offence to obstruct, fail to provide information without reasonable cause or furnish false or misleading information to a person acting to implement these regulations and establishes the penalties which may be imposed.

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