{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-levy-reliefs-frozen-beef-and-veal-order-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/154",
  "legislation_title": "The Agricultural Levy Reliefs (Frozen Beef and Veal) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-levy-reliefs-frozen-beef-and-veal-order-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which applies throughout the United Kingdom, requires the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to allocate to persons established within the United Kingdom its share of a quota for the levy-free import of frozen beef and veal under the provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4076/88 (OJ No. L359, 28.12.88, p. 5).\nThis Order provides that not more than one third of the United Kingdom’s share of the quota shall be allocated to local authorities and government departments including Northern Ireland departments (article 3(2)), and that the remainder shall be allocated–\n(a) as to 70% thereof, to importers of frozen beef and veal by reference to the amounts of frozen beef and veal which they have imported from outside the European Economic Community into the United Kingdom during the reference period other than amounts imported free of duty pursuant to the Third Lomé Convention (article 3(2)(a));\n(b) as to 20% thereof, to exporters of fresh, chilled or frozen beef or veal by reference to the amounts of fresh, chilled or frozen beef or veal which they have exported during the reference period to destinations outside the European Economic Community and other similar destinations (article 3(2)(b)); and\n(c) as to 10% thereof, to purchasers of frozen beef or veal from intervention agencies by reference to the amounts of frozen beef and veal which they have purchased from such agencies during the reference period other than frozen beef and veal sold on condition that it should be exported from the European Economic Community (article 3(2)(c)).\nFor the purposes of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above the reference period is the period from 1st October 1986 to 30th September 1988 (article 2) and an allocation to any person is to take account of amounts of beef and veal imported, exported or purchased by a business transferred to that person (article 3(3)).\nThe Order comes into force on 28th February 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/154/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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