The Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 1988

Made: 30th June 1988

Laid before Parliament: 11th July 1988

Coming into force: 1st August 1988

Now, therefore, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 13(3) and 23(1) of the Act and now vested in them[^f00003], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st August 1988.

Interpretation

2

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, expressions have the same meaning as they have in the Scheme.

Rates of levy

3

For the relevant year the rates of levy per tonne of cereals delivered, which appear to the Ministers to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount apportioned to each kind of cereal, shall in each case be—

• (a) 23 pence in respect of dealer levy,

• (b) 18 pence in respect of grower levy, and

• (c) 3 pence in respect of processor levy.

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 30th June 1988.

John MacGregor — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 29th June 1988

Tom King — Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — 29th June 1988

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 30th June 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

For the purposes of financing the Home-Grown Cereals Authority’s non-trading functions under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 for the year beginning 1st August 1988, this Order specifies the rates of dealer levy, grower levy and processor levy which appear to Ministers to be sufficient to meet the amounts apportioned to certain cereals grown in the United Kingdom namely, wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oats, rye, maize, triticale or any two or more of such cereals grown as one crop.

In the case of each of these kinds of cereals, the rate of dealer levy is 23 pence per tonne, the rate of grower levy is 18 pence per tonne and the rate of processor levy is 3 pence per tonne.

Levy will be imposed in accordance with the provisions of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Levy Scheme 1987, a Scheme in force under section 16 of the Act.

The Order comes into force on 1st August 1988.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1965 c. 14; sections 1, 6, 12, 13, 16 and 24 were amended by the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49). In addition, section 16 was amended by the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972 (c. 62), section 24 was amended by the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 (Amendment) Regulations 1977 (S.I. 1977/181) and sections 13 and 16 were amended by the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 (Amendment) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/26).

[^f00002]: The Scheme was approved (with modifications) by the Ministers by the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Levy Scheme (Approval) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/671).

[^f00003]: In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1969/388 and 1978/272.