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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-development-board-order-2008/note",
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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",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order dissolves—\n(a)the British Potato Council;\n(b)the Home-Grown Cereals Authority;\n(c)the Horticultural Development Council;\n(d)the Meat and Livestock Commission;\n(e)the Milk Development Council.\nand replaces them with a new body, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.\nThe Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board has functions and duties relating to the following industries: beef, lamb and pigs, cereals and oilseeds, horticulture, milk and potatoes. It operates for each industry in the part of the United Kingdom specified in article 2. The Order contains provisions for the constitution and proceedings of the Board.\nUnder article 5 the Board may establish a subsidiary company for each of the industries covered by the Order.\nThe Board must raise levies relating to each industry (article 6). Details of payment of the levies, and the maximum permitted levy, are set out in Schedule 3. Under that Schedule, failure to make a return relating to a levy is an offence.\nIf demanded by a set number of levy payers in any given sector, the Board must hold a ballot on whether or not the levy system should continue in that sector (articles 11 and 12).\nThere are offences relating to the provision of information and record-keeping (article 15).\nThe penalty for breach of the Order is a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (currently £5,000).\nAn impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available at www.defra.gov.uk/farm/policy/levy-bodies/index.htmhttp://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/policy/levy-bodies/index.htm.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/576/note",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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