The Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 1998

Made: 21st May 1998

Laid before Parliament: 2nd June 1998

Coming into force: 1st July 1998

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), 23(1) and 24(1)⁶ of the Act and now vested in them⁷, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st July 1998.

Interpretation

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In this Order—

• (a) unless the context otherwise requires, expressions have the same meanings as they have in the Schemes; and

• (b) “the relevant year” means the period of twelve months beginning with 1st July 1998.

Rates of levy

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• (1) 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) 48.5275 pence in respect of dealer levy,

• (b) 44.65 pence in respect of grower levy,

• (c) 9.165 pence in respect of standard rate processor levy, and

• (d) 4.465 pence in respect of reduced rate processor levy.

• (2) For the relevant year the rate of levy per tonne of oilseeds delivered, which appears to the Ministers to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount apportioned to each kind of oilseed, shall in each case be 76.375 pence.

Signed

Donoughue — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 18th May 1998

Sewel — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 18th May 1998

Dubs — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office — 18th May 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 21st May 1998

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 July 1998, this Order specifies the rates of dealer levy, grower levy and processor levies which appear to the Ministers to be sufficient to meet the amount 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 and the rate of levy which appears to them to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain oilseeds grown in the United Kingdom, namely rapeseed, linseed, soyabean, sunflowerseed, or any two or more of such oilseeds grown as one crop.

In the case of each of these kinds of cereals, the rate of dealer levy is 48.5275 pence per tonne, the rate of grower levy is 44.65 pence per tonne, the standard rate of processor levy is 9.165 pence per tonne and the reduced rate of processor levy is 4.465 pence per tonne and in the case of each of these kinds of oilseeds the rate of levy is 76.375 pence per tonne.

Levy will be imposed in accordance with provisions of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Cereals Levy Scheme 1987 (as varied) and the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme 1990, Schemes in force under section 16 of the Act.

The Order comes into force on 1st July 1998.

A regulatory appraisal has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from Cereals and Set-aside Division, Room 602, Whitehall Place (East Block), London SW1A 2HH.

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