Explanatory note

These Regulations, which apply to Great Britain, revoke and replace the Corn Returns Regulations 1976, the Corn Returns (Scotland) Regulations 1976, the Corn Returns (Scotland) (Variation) Regulations 1990, and the Corn Returns (Variation) Regulations 1990.

The Regulations prescribe the areas from which returns of wholesale purchases of British corn are required to be made under sections 4 and 5 of the Corn Returns Act 1882 (as amended) (regulation 3 and Schedule 1). British corn is defined in that Act as wheat, barley, rye, maize, and oats, the produce of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man.

The Regulations provide for alternative ways of making and submitting (by post, or by facsimile) a return to the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (being the body appointed for the time being to receive returns on the Minister’s behalf) subject to a saving for cases where another manner of making the return is agreed between its maker and the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (regulation 4(1)), and set out those items of information that any return must contain (regulation 4(2) and (3) and Schedule 2).

Under the Corn Returns Act 1882 it is an offence either to fail to make a required return (section 11) or to make a false return (section 12).

No compliance cost assessment has been prepared.