Hill Cattle (Breeding Herds) (Northern Ireland) Scheme 1964
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1964/737 |
1964 No. 737
AGRICULTURE
HILL FARMING
The Hill Cattle (Breeding Herds) (Northern Ireland) Scheme 196413thMay 1964
27thMay 1964
28thMay 1964
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in pursuance of sections 13, 14 and 15 of the Hill Farming Act 1946(a), as extended by section 2 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1963(b), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Scheme:—
Citation and commencement
1. This Scheme, which may be cited as the Hill Cattle (Breeding Herds) (Northern Ireland) Scheme 1964, shall come into operation on 28th May 1964.
Application
2. This Scheme shall apply to Northern Ireland.
Interpretation
3.—(1) In this Scheme, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—
"the Act" means the Hill Farming Act 1946, as extended by section 2 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1963;
"breeding cow" means a female bovine animal which has borne a calf;
"hill land" has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 6 of this Scheme;
"in-calf heifer" means a female bovine animal which is in-calf for the first time at 1st January next preceding the qualifying day and which calves before the qualifying day;
"the Minister" means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;
"the Ministry" means the Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland;
"occupier" means a person who is in occupation of any land under an estate, or interest, for a period of not less than 12 months;
"qualifying day" means 1st June (or, if the Minister so appoints such other date in June) in any year in respect of which a subsidy payment falls to be made.
(a) 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 73.
(b) 1963 c. 11.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(a) as applied to Northern Ireland by the Interpretation Act 1921(b) shall apply to the interpretation of this Scheme as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Subsidy Payments
4. Subject to the provisions of this Scheme, the Minister may, in respect of the year 1964 and each of the three next succeeding years, make subsidy payments in respect of cattle grazed on hill land, (being cattle of a description to which this Scheme applies), to the person who was the occupier of the land at the beginning of the qualifying day:
Provided that—
(a) in the case of cattle grazed on hill land that is subject to rights of common of pasture, payment may be made to the person who at the beginning of the qualifying day was entitled so to graze the cattle by virtue of his rights of common of pasture, or
(b) in the case of cattle grazed on other hill land that is by custom subject to rights of grazing, payment may be made, at the Minister's discretion, either to the person at the beginning of the qualifying day responsible for the care and management of the cattle, or to the person then owning the cattle.
Description of cattle
5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding subparagraph, this Scheme shall apply to breeding cows and in-calf heifers of such type and quality as may from time to time be approved by the Minister forming part of a regular breeding herd, that is to say, a herd of cows and in-calf heifers maintained throughout their normal breeding life for the purpose of breeding store cattle for sale.
(2) This Scheme shall not apply to cows kept wholly or mainly for the production of milk for sale, or the making on the farm of cheese for sale, or solely for domestic milk supply.
Hill land
6. In this Scheme "hill land" means—
(a) land which is livestock rearing land as defined in section 1(3) of the Livestock Rearing...
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