This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 1998/3169 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
1999 No. 8
AGRICULTURE
The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1999
 Made 7th January 1999
 Laid before Parliament 13th January 1999
 Coming into force 15th January 1999
 The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly in the exercise of the powers conferred on them by that subsection, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
 Title and commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1999, and shall come into force on 15th January 1999.

2 
The Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996  shall be amended in regulation 2(3) by the substitution, for the words “the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997”, of the words “
            the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1998 
          ”.
 Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
7th January 1999 Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
7th January 1999