My Department has no record of having received a 1999 beef cow headage scheme application from the person named at any time in 1999. He is not, therefore, entitled to any grants under that scheme.
As the person named had submitted applications under the beef cow scheme during May of previous years he would have automatically received the 1999 beef cow scheme application form in the post by the end of April, 1999. The helpsheet for applicants, which accompanied the application form and the terms and conditions of the 1999 beef cow scheme, states that there "is only one application period, – 4 May to 31 May – for cattle-beef cow headage". Clause 18 of the terms and conditions sets out details of the actual closing date of the scheme as well as the extended closing date for receipt of the application to which late application penalties apply. The closing date for receipt of applications under the 1999 beef cow scheme was extended to 4 June 1999 and notification of this extension was placed by my Department in all daily and local newspapers as well as local radio.
The onus is on the applicant to submit an application form for any of the headage and premia schemes on time and there is no evidence on file to suggest that my Department advised him to submit his application under the 1999 beef cow scheme in October 1999.
