Calendar Quarter definition

[monkeybusiness]

Hello you knowledgable lot!

Can anybody point me to the definitive meaning/understanding of calendar quarter when viewed from a forestry commission felling licence perspective? Ideally written FC guidance, but I’d also be interested in hearing people’s individual understanding of the rules too if possible.

Many thanks!

[AHPP]

If you get no better answer, try the Intepretation Act 1974 (or is it 1978?).

[monkeybusiness]

22 hours ago, AHPP said:

If you get no better answer, try the Intepretation Act 1974 (or is it 1978?).

No luck there (that I could find anyway) sadly - thank you for the pointer though.

 

I’m interested in people’s interpretation of how this is meant - you cannot fell more than 5m3 in a calendar quarter. Is that quarter something pre-defined in an actual calendar, does the clock start ticking on the first day of felling, can it be treated as a rolling period with a start date of your choosing?
Has the term ‘Calendar quarter’ been defined anywhere (and tested in court)? 

What is the day-to-day Arb/forester’s understand of the meaning?

[AHPP]

3 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

No luck there (that I could find anyway) sadly - thank you for the pointer though.

 

I’m interested in people’s interpretation of how this is meant - you cannot fell more than 5m3 in a calendar quarter. Is that quarter something pre-defined in an actual calendar, does the clock start ticking on the first day of felling, can it be treated as a rolling period with a start date of your choosing?
Has the term ‘Calendar quarter’ been defined anywhere (and tested in court)? 

What is the day-to-day Arb/forester’s understand of the meaning?

 

Ask me in a week or so if you haven't got anything. I'll get a logon from a mate and peruse a legal database.

[Dan Maynard]

Its 3 month blocks Jan-Mar etc.

 

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64b54e2d0ea2cb000d15e3e5/FC_Tree_Felling_4_July_23_WEB.pdf

 

[monkeybusiness]

12 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

Its 3 month blocks Jan-Mar etc.

 

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64b54e2d0ea2cb000d15e3e5/FC_Tree_Felling_4_July_23_WEB.pdf

 

I’d never seen that before - it says it was updated in 2023. Was there an earlier version that you are aware of?

[Dan Maynard]

I don't know what changed in that version but pretty sure calendar quarters did not, I've always believed that to be quarters based on calendar year. It's the same definition of calendar quarters for accountants.

[Spruce Pirate]

When I worked for them as a student back in 98/99 it was the same definition of a quarter as above.