Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) Order 1976
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1976/1034 |
| Year | 1976 |
1976 No. 1034
AGRICULTURE
CORN CROPS
The Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) Order 19761stJuly 1976
4thAugust 1976
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 17(2) of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972(a), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:—
Citation and commencement
1. This order may be cited as the Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) Order 1976 and shall come into operation on 4th August 1976.
Interpretation
2. The Interpretation Act 1889(b) applies for the interpretation of this order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Amendment of Corn Returns Act 1882
3. Sections 8 and 9(6) of the Corn Returns Act 1882(c) (which, as read with the Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) Order 1972(d) respectively require, as respects England and Wales, that computations of corn in returns under that Act shall be in tons and that the annual and septennial average price published in pursuance of that Act shall be for a ton of corn) shall have effect as respects England and Wales as if for the references therein to the ton of 2240 imperial standard pounds there were substituted references to the tonne of 1000 kilograms.
Revocation
4. The Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) Order 1972 is hereby revoked.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 1st July 1976.
Frederick Peart, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
(L.S.)
(a) 1972 c. 62.
(b) 1889 c. 63.
(c) 1882 c. 37.
(d) S.I. 1972/1244 (1972 II, p. 3752).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Note is not part of the Order.)
Sections 8 and 9(6) of the Corn Returns Act 1882, as read with the Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) Order 1972, respectively require that computations of corn in returns under that Act shall be in tons and that the annual and septennial average price published in pursuance of that Act shall be for a ton of corn.
This Order revokes the 1972 Order and provides that the 1882 Act shall have effect, as respects England and Wales, as if for the references in sections 8 and 9(6) to the ton of 2240 imperial standard pounds there were substituted references to the tonne of 1000 kilograms.
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