{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cereals-co-responsibility-levy-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1001",
  "legislation_title": "The Cereals Co-responsibility Levy Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cereals-co-responsibility-levy-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“authorised officer” means—\n(a) in relation to any part of the United Kingdom, an officer of the Board authorised for the purposes of these Regulations by the Board;\n(b) in relation to England, an officer of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food so authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n(c) in relation to Scotland, an officer of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland so authorised by the Secretary of State;\n(d) in relation to Wales, an officer of the Secretary of State so authorised by the Secretary of State;\n(e) in relation to Northern Ireland, an officer of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland so authorised by that Department;\n“the Board” means the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce established under section 6(1) of the European Communities Act 1972;\n“cereals” means cereals referred to in Article 1(a) and (b) of the Council Regulation produced in the Community;\n“cereals co-responsibility levy” means levy imposed by Articles 4 and 4b of the Council Regulation;\n“cereals co-responsibility levy legislation” means Articles 4 and 4b of the Council Regulation, the Commission Regulation and these Regulations;\n“cereals marketing year” means the marketing year specified in Article 2 of the Council Regulation;\n“the Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 1432/88 laying down detailed rules for applying the co-responsibility levy in the cereals sector;\n“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2727/75 on the common organisation of the market in cereals, as amended;\n“the Home-Grown Cereals Authority” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority established under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 1965;\n“trader” means—\n(a) any person who purchases from their producer cereals other than cereals placed on the market in the framework of a forward transaction;\n(b) any person who processes on behalf of another cereals produced by him; or\n(c) any person who places on the market cereals produced by him—\n(i) by way of direct export from the United Kingdom; or\n(ii) in the framework of a forward transaction.\n(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations have, in so far as the context admits, the same meanings as in the Council Regulation and the Commission Regulation.\n(3) When two or more persons jointly undertake purchasing of cereals by way of business, they shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be treated as constituting a single person.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n(a) any reference to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations; and\n(b) for the purposes of regulations 4, 5, 6 and 7(1) any reference to the Board shall include a reference to the Home-Grown Cereals Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L131, 27.5.88, p.37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L281, 1.11.1975, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The relevant amending instruments are Council Regulations 1579/86 (OJ No. L139, 24.5.86, p.29 and 1079/88 (OJ No. L110, 29.4.88, p.7) and Commission Regulation 3989/87 (OJ No. L377, 31.12.87, p.1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1965 c. 14; Part I was amended by sections 4 and 24(3) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1823",
      "affecting_title": "The Cereals Co-responsibility Levy (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/576",
      "affecting_title": "The Cereals Co-responsibility Levy (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1001/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:05:32.942178+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."
}