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Section 5 Adaptation of Acts and awards providing for payment based on price of imperial bushels or other measures.

(1)

Where under the provisions of any Act or award or other instrument any payments are to be calculated on the price or value of an imperial bushel of wheat, barley, or oats, those provisions shall have effect as if the payment were to be calculated on the price or value of F127.215 542 2 kilogramsof wheat, 22.679 618 5 kilogramsof barley, or 17.690 102 43 kilogramsof oats, as the case may be.

(2)

Where under the provisions of any Act or award or other instrument any payments are to be calculated on the price or value of any measure of wheat, barley, or oats other than the imperial bushel, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, or, as regards Scotland, the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, may certify what number of F2kilogramsought, having regard to the foregoing provisions of this section, to be substituted for that other measure, and thereupon those provisions shall have effect as if the payment were to be calculated on the price or value of the number of kilograms so certified.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words substituted by S.I. 1979/357, reg. 2(a)

F2

Words substituted by S.I. 1979/357, reg. 2(b)

Modifications

C1

Style and title of Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries now changed to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200)

C2

Functions of Board of Agriculture for Scotland now exercisable by Secretary of State: Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 1 and Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1

S. 5(2): Functions of the Secretary of State, the Secretary fo State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Wales transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, arts. 2(1)(5), 3, Sch.