Agriculture and Forestry (Financial Provisions) Act 1991
| Year | 1991 |
Agriculture and Forestry(Financial Provisions) Act1991
1991 CHAPTER 33
An Act to repeal the statutory provisions relating to the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation; to provide for the recovery of the cost of government supervision of Community livestock carcase grading at slaughterhouses; to provide for the making of additional grants to persons entitled to Community suckler cow premiums; and to provide for contributions out of the Forestry Fund towards the expenses of the verderers of the New Forest.
[25th July 1991]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation.
(1) The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(2) The repeals in Part I of that Schedule which are of provisions—
(a) authorising the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to make advances to the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation for the purpose of establishing a guarantee fund;
(b) enabling the Treasury to procure the underwriting of debentures issued by that Corporation;
(c) imposing requirements as to the contents of, and requiring the approval of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State (‘the Ministers’) for alterations to, that Corporation's memorandum and articles of association; and
(d) imposing requirements as to the application of that Corporation's reserves after the repayment of the advances mentioned in paragraph (a) above,
shall take effect on such day as may be specified by the Ministers by an order made by statutory instrument and that day shall not be earlier than the date on which the Ministers are satisfied that all outstanding amounts of principal and interest in respect of the advances mentioned in paragraph (a) above have been repaid.
(3) The repeals in Part II of the Schedule to this Act which are of provisions in respect of—
(a) mortgages made for securing loans by the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation; and
(b) certain debentures issued by that Corporation,
shall also take effect on the day specified under subsection (2) above but do not affect mortgages or debentures which are subsisting when the repeals take effect.
(4) The repeals in Part III of the Schedule to this Act, which are of provisions relating to the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation corresponding to those relating to the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation described in subsection (2) above, shall take effect on such day as may be specified by the Secretary of State by an order made by statutory instrument.
(5) The repeals in Part IV of the Schedule to this Act which are consequential on the other repeals shall take effect, so far as relating to the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, on the day specified under subsection (2) above and, so far as relating to the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation, on the day specified under subsection (4) above.
(6) Clause 9 of the memorandum of association of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and clause 8 of the memorandum of association of the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation (which require Ministerial approval for alterations of the Corporation's memorandum and articles of association) shall not have effect at any time after the repeal by this section of the statutory provision requiring such approval in the case of the Corporation in question.
(7) Notwithstanding the repeals in the Schedule to this Act the two Corporations mentioned in this section shall continue to be treated as falling within section 16(1)(f) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (power to exempt bodies named in public general Acts).
2 Recovery of cost of supervising Community livestock carcase grading procedures.
(1) The Minister may require the occupiers of slaughterhouses at which livestock carcases are required to be graded in pursuance of any Community obligation to pay to him in respect of the supervision of the grading by his officers such fees as he may with the approval of the Treasury specify.
(2) The fees shall be such as to secure, so far as practicable, that the amounts payable are sufficient, taking one year with another, to cover the cost of the supervision referred to in subsection (1) above.
(3) Different fees may be specified in relation to slaughterhouses of different classes or descriptions but this section shall not be construed as requiring the fees payable in the case of any particular slaughterhouse to be related to the cost of supervision at that slaughterhouse or as precluding exceptions from the liability to pay fees.
(4) Before making any decision as to the total fees to be recovered under this section or the method of apportioning them between the persons liable to pay them the Minister shall consult with such organisations as appear to him to be representative of those persons.
(5) The Minister may permit payment of any fees under this section by instalments and arrange for the refund, adjustment, set-off,...
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