The Marketing Development Scheme (Specification of Activities) Order 1994

Made: 24th May 1994

Laid before Parliament: 25th May 1994

Coming into force: 15th June 1994

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 upon them by section 50(2)(c) of the Agriculture Act 1993[^f00001], hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

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This Order ma be cited as the Marketing Development Scheme (Specification of Activities) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 15th June 1994.

Activities specified for the purposes of section 50(2) of the Agriculture Act 1993

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• (1) The following activities are hereby specified for the purposes of section 50(2) of the Agriculture Act 1993—

• (a) the shooting and harvesting in the wild of game; and

• (b) the repeated harvesting above ground level at intervals of less than ten years of short rotation coppice.

• (2) In paragraph (1) of this article—

• (a) “game” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Poaching Prevention Act 1862[^f00002]; and

• (b) “short rotation coppice” means a perennial crop of tree species which has been planted at high density.

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 23rd May 1994.

Gillian Shephard — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food James

Douglas-Hamilton — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 24th May 1994

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Wyn Roberts — Minister of State, Welsh Office — 23rd May 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

1 This Order specifies the following activities, namely— a the shooting and harvesting in the wild of game; and b the repeated harvesting above ground level at intervals of less than ten years of short rotation coppice, for the purposes of section 50(2) of the Agriculture Act 1993 (1993 c. 37). 2.“Game” and “short rotation coppice” are defined in article 2(2) of this Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1993 c. 37.

[^f00002]: 1862 c. 114; section 1 was amended by section 3(1) and (2) of the Game Laws (Amendment) Act 1960 (1960 c. 36).