{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-development-board-order-2008/article-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/576",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-development-board-order-2008",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Ballots",
  "text": "(1) For each industry for which there is a levy in place under article 6, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board—\n(a) must hold a vote at least once every five years on proposals as to how the levy will be spent;\n(b) may hold a ballot at any time on whether or not a levy should continue (“levy continuation ballot”).\n(2) It must hold a levy continuation ballot if directed by the appropriate authority.\n(3) It must hold a levy continuation ballot if, within a three month period, it receives from 5% or more of persons entitled to vote in such a ballot a signed request or requests for such a ballot.\n(4) The three month period is calculated from the first day of any month.\n(5) The maximum frequency with which a levy continuation ballot for the same levy can be held at the request of persons entitled to vote is 5 years.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) The Board must immediately inform the appropriate authority of the result of a levy continuation ballot, but the appropriate authority is not bound by the result.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 11(1) substituted (26.5.2022) by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/577), arts. 1(1), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 11(2) substituted (26.5.2022) by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/577), arts. 1(1), 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 11(3) substituted (26.5.2022) by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/577), arts. 1(1), 2(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 11(5) substituted (26.5.2022) by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/577), arts. 1(1), 2(5)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 11(6) omitted (26.5.2022) by virtue of The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/577), arts. 1(1), 2(5)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 11(7) substituted (26.5.2022) by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/577), arts. 1(1), 2(5)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/576/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:35:08.938626+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}