Explanatory note

This Order, which comes into force on 1st October 2002, further amends the Horticultural Development Council Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1110) (“the principal Order”). This Order provides for new levy and accounting periods in article 2(2) of the principal Order (article 5) and makes consequential and other amendments to the definitions contained in article 2(1), and the levy provisions in article 9, of the principal Order (articles 4 and 6). This Order also adds for clarification two further categories to the list of horticultural produce specified in Schedule 1 to the principal Order (article 7). Finally, this Order introduces a saving in respect of levy arrangements applying to earlier levy periods (article 8).

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.