Section 11 Interpretation of Part I.F1

In this Part of this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—

• F2“annual review” . . . F3 mean an annual review . . . held under section two of the M1Agriculture Act, 1947;

• “consultation with producers”, in relation to any exercise of a function conferred or imposed by this Part of this Act on the Minister or the Ministers, means consultation with such bodies of persons as appear to the Minister or Ministers to represent the interests of producers of the produce concerned;

• “description” includes quality;

• “marketing scheme” means a scheme for regulating the marketing of any produce under the Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 to 1949, or any corresponding legislation enacted by the Parliament of Northern Ireland;

• “the Ministers” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland, acting jointly;

• “the Minister”, in relation to any part of the United Kingdom, means either that one of the Ministers who is concerned with agriculture in that part, or that Minister and either or both of the others acting jointly;

• “produce” includes anything (whether live or dead) produced in the course of agriculture.