{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/30",
  "legislation_title": "Food Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Crop price.",
  "text": "(1) If as regards the home-grown beet crop for any year it is made to appear to the Ministers—\n(a) by the processors of home-grown beet, or\n(b) by a body which is in their opinion substantially representative of the groers of home-grown beet,\nthat the processors and that body are unable to agree on the prices and other terms and conditions for the purchase of home-grown beet by the processors, the Ministers may determine or designate a person to determine those prices, terms and conditions.\n(2) Any purchase by processors for which prices, terms and conditions have been so determined, or contract for such a purchase, shall take effect as a purchase or contract for purchase at those prices and on those terms and conditions.\n(3) In this section and section 69A -“home-grown beet” means sugar beet grown in Great Britain; and “the Ministers” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly.",
  "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      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (16.6.2025) by Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 11), s. 38(2), sch. 2 Pt. 1; S.S.I. 2025/167, reg. 2, sch."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 Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), ss. 52, 54, Sch. 2 para. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 69(3) inserted (E.W.) (9.5.2003) by Regulatory Reform (Sugar Beet Research and Education) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1281), arts. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 69: transfer of functions (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 2(5)(7))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/30/section/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:26.993897+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."
}