Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) (Scotland) Order 1976

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1976/1082
Year1976

1976 No. 1082 (S. 94)

AGRICULTURE

CORN CROPS

The Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) (Scotland) Order 1976

1stJuly 1976

4thAugust 1976

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 17(2) of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972(a), and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby make the following order:—

Citation, extent and commencement

1. This order may be cited as the Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) (Scotland) Order 1976, shall apply to Scotland only and shall come into operation on 4th August 1976.

Interpretation

2. The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply 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) (Scotland) Order 1972(d) respectively require, as respects Scotland, 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 Scotland as if for the references therein to the ton of two thousand two hundred and forty imperial standard pounds there were substituted references to the tonne of one thousand kilograms.

(a) 1972 c. 62.

(b) 1889 c. 63.

(c) 1882 c. 37.

(d) S.I. 1972/1274 (1972 II, p. 3817).

Revocation

4. The Corn Returns Act 1882 (Amendment of Units) (Scotland) Order 1972 is hereby revoked.

Bruce Millan, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

New St Andrew's House, Edinburgh.

1st July 1976.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Order.)

Sections 8 and 9(6) of the Corn Returns Act 1882, as...

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