The Agriculture Act 1993 (Specification of Year) (Potato Target Area) Order 1993

Made: 4th August 1993

Coming into force: 9th August 1993

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 59 of the Agriculture Act 1993[^f00001], hereby make the following Order:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Agriculture Act 1993 (Specification of Year) (Potato Target Area) Order 1993, and shall come into force on 9th August 1993.

2

The year 1993 is hereby specified for the purposes of section 59(1) of the Agriculture Act 1993.

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 4th August 1993.

Gillian Shephard — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Hector Monro — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 3rd August 1993

John Redwood — Secretary of State for Wales — 3rd August 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

By this Order agriculture Ministers specify the year 1993 for the purposes of section 59(1) of the Agriculture Act 1993. That provision requires the Joint Consultative Committee constituted under paragraph 24 of the Potato Marketing Scheme to consider in each year after the year 1993 specified in the Order whether it is desirable to establish a target area, which is to be used for planting potatoes in the following year. If it considers that it is desirable the Joint Consultative Committee is required by section 59(1) of that Act to determine what that target area is.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1993 c. 37.