{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1954/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1954/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/39",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1954",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Extension of Corn Returns Act, 1882 to Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) The Corn Returns Act, 1882 (which provides for the making of returns of purchases of British corn and for the computation and publication of the average prices of each sort of British corn, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid), shall, subject to the modifications specified in the next following subsection, extend to Scotland.\n(2) The modifications referred to in the foregoing subsection are—\n(a) for any reference to the Board of Trade or to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State;\n(b) for any reference to the London Gazette there shall be substituted a reference to the Edinburgh Gazette;\n(c) in section twelve for the words “shall be guilty of a misdemeanour” there shall be substituted the words “shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale”; and\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The expenses of the Secretary of State under the Corn Returns Act, 1882, as extended by this section shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (16.6.2025) by Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 11), s. 38(2), sch. 2 Pt. 1; S.S.I. 2025/167, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1955/554 (1955 1, p. 1200), art. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 14(2)(d) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, S. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.II."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1882 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/39/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:03.531700+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."
}