{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-development-board-order-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-and-horticulture-development-board-order-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-9.json",
  "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": "schedule/3/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Levy on cereal and oilseed payable by buyers",
  "text": "(1) Any person who buys cereal or oilseed grown in the United Kingdom from the grower must pay a levy.\n(2) The levy is based on the weight bought.\n(3) In the case of cereal—\n(a) the levy consists of two parts, the cereal grower levy and the cereal buyer levy;\n(b) the buyer must deduct the cereal grower levy from the price paid and hold it on trust for the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board; and\n(c) the Board may reduce the levy that the buyer would otherwise be required to pay to the Board to cover the administrative costs of the buyer in administering the levy.\n(4) In the case of oilseed—\n(a) the levy consists of the oilseed grower levy;\n(b) the buyer must deduct the oilseed grower levy from the price paid and hold it on trust for the Board; and\n(c) the Board may reduce the levy that the buyer would otherwise be required to pay to the Board to cover the administrative costs of the buyer in administering the levy.\n(5) If the buyer is—\n(a) the appropriate authority; or\n(b) outside the United Kingdom (or, in the case of a company, registered outside the United Kingdom),\nthe grower must pay the levy to the Board himself, based on the weight sold.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 9(3)(4) substituted (14.10.2023) by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1055), arts. 1(1), 7(5) (with art. 8(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/576/schedule/3/paragraph/9",
    "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."
}