
1 
This scheme, which may be cited as the Milk (Eradication of Brucellosis) (Variation) Scheme 1976, shall apply to the United Kingdom and shall come into operation on 1st April 1976.
2 

(1) In this scheme “the principal scheme” means the Milk (Eradication of Brucellosis) Scheme 1970 as varied by the Milk (Eradication of Brucellosis) (Variation) Scheme 1971 and the Milk (Eradication of Brucellosis) (Variation) Scheme 1972.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of this scheme as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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(1) Paragraph 4(1) of the principal scheme shall be further varied by adding at the end thereof, the words “and in relation to producers in Scotland on or after 1st April 1976 the rate of payment shall be 0.176p per litre, and in relation to producers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on or after 1st October 1976 the rate of payment shall be 0.176p per litre.”
(2) Paragraph 4(1) of the principal scheme as amended by sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph and as varied by the preceding sub-paragraph shall have effect as set out in the Schedule to this scheme.
In Witness where of the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 8th March 1976.
Frederick Peart
Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
William Ross
Secretary of State for Scotland
2nd March 1976Given under my hand on 9th March 1976.
John Morris
Secretary of State for Wales
We consent,
M. Cocks
J. Dormand
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
10th March 1976
SCHEDULE
Paragraph 3(2)

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Each board shall make payments at a rate of 0.52p per gallon to each producer registered under the scheme constituting that board in respect of milk which is the subject of a payment under that scheme to or by that producer, being milk to which this scheme applies, except that in respect of such milk sold or deemed to have been produced, as the case may be, within the meaning of sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 3(1) of this scheme, on or after 1st April 1971 the rate of payment shall be 0.8p per gallon, and in relation to producers in Scotland on or after 1st April 1976 the rate of payment shall be 0.176p per litre, and in relation to producers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on or after 1st October 1976 the rate of payment shall be 0.176p per litre.
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