UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
1997 No. 1873
AGRICULTURECORN CROPS
The Corn Returns Regulations 1997
Made 30th July 1997
Coming into force 1st August 1997
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4, 5 and 14 of the Corn Returns Act 1882and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Corn Returns Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st August 1997.
(2) These Regulations shall apply to Great Britain.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —
“the Act” means the Corn Returns Act 1882;
“the Authority” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority, established by the Cereals Marketing Act 1965;
“return” means a return made in pursuance of section 5 of the Act of purchases of British corn.
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3. The areas prescribed in accordance with section 4 of the Act (from which areas weekly returns are to be made) shall be those areas listed in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
Making of returns
4.—(1) Any person required by section 5 of the Act (weekly returns of purchases of British corn) to make a return shall, save where he and the Authority have agreed that he shall do so in some other manner, either—
(a)
(a) do so in writing, and sign it, and then post it by first class post, or
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(b) complete it in such a way that it is capable of being easily read after transmission by facsimile machine, and then send it by means of such a machine,
to the Authority on each Friday (or, if that Friday is a public holiday, the next working day) occurring next after a period for which he is required to make a return.
(2) A return shall contain the information specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations, and shall relate to the period of seven days (starting on a Friday) most recently preceding the day on which it is required to be posted or sent to the Authority.
(3) A separate return shall be made for each of the prescribed areas from which the person required to make the return purchased British corn by wholesale from the grower, or if no such purchase was made during the seven-day period in question a return shall be made stating that fact.
Revocations
5. The Corn Returns Regulations 1976, the Corn Returns (Scotland) Regulations 1976, the Corn Returns (Scotland) (Variation) Regulations 1990, and the Corn Returns (Variation) Regulations 1990are hereby revoked.
Donoughue
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
28th July 1997
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office
30th July 1997
Sewel
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office
28th July 1997
SCHEDULE 1
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PRESCRIBED AREAS FROM WHICH RETURNS ARE TO BE MADE
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South East England |
(comprising Greater London; the counties of Berkshire, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Portsmouth, Southampton, Surrey, and West Sussex). |
2. |
South West England & South Wales |
(comprising, in England, the counties of the City of Bristol, Bournemouth, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, North East Somerset, North West Somerset, Poole, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Thamesdown, and Wiltshire; and, in Wales, the counties of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Powys, and Swansea; the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Torfaen, and The Vale of Glamorgan). |
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Midlands of England |
(comprising the counties of Derby, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Hereford and Worcester, Leicester, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, and Warwickshire; the metropolitan county of West Midlands). |
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East England |
(comprising the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, and Suffolk). |
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North East England |
(comprising the counties of Darlington, Durham, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hartlepool, the City of Kingston upon Hull, Middlesborough, Northumberland, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, and the City of York; the metropolitan counties of South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, and West Yorkshire). |
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North West England & North Wales |
(comprising, in England, the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, and Lancashire; the metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester, and Merseyside; and, in Wales, the counties of Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Denbighshire, and Flintshire; the county boroughs of Conwy, and Wrexham). |
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South Scotland |
(comprising the areas administered by the Councils of Argyll and Bute, City of Edinburgh, City... |
