{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-grown-cereals-authority-levy-scheme-approval-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/671",
  "legislation_title": "The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Levy Scheme (Approval) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-grown-cereals-authority-levy-scheme-approval-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Scheme:—\n“the Act” means the Cereals Marketing Act 1965;\n“agent intermediary” means any person with a place of business in the United Kingdom acting as agent for a grower, dealer, processor or overseas purchaser;\n“the Authority” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority as established under Part I of the Act;\n“cereals” means cereals grown in the United Kingdom being wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oats, rye, maize, triticale or any two or more of such cereals grown as one crop;\n“dealer” means any person (other than an overseas purchaser or the Intervention Board) trading as a wholesale buyer or seller of cereals;\n“dealer levy” means the levy imposed by paragraph 4;\n“financial intermediary” means any person other than a grower, dealer, processor, overseas purchaser or agent intermediary who in the course of his business acts as an intermediary in the buying and selling of cereals;\n“grower” means any person who grows cereals;\n“grower levy” means the levy imposed by paragraph 5;\n“Intervention Board” means the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce established under the European Communities Act 1972;\n“levy” means a levy imposed by this Scheme;\n“month” means a calendar month;\n“overseas purchaser” means any person who trades as a wholesale buyer of cereals and who does not have a place of business in the United Kingdom;\n“processor” means a person who applies an industrial process to cereals (other than cereals grown by him) in the course of a business carried on by him;\n“processor levy” means the levy imposed by paragraph 6;\n“quarter” means a period of three consecutive calendar months ending on 31st October, 31st January, 30th April or 31st July;\n“registrable person” means a dealer, a processor, an agent intermediary or a financial intermediary;\n“year” means a period of twelve months beginning with 1st August and ending on 31st July in any calendar year.\n(2) Any reference in this Scheme to a numbered paragraph shall be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the Scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words deleted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3686",
      "affecting_title": "The Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce (Abolition) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3686",
      "affecting_title": "The Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce (Abolition) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2843",
      "affecting_title": "The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Levy (Variation) Scheme (Approval) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2843",
      "affecting_title": "The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Levy (Variation) Scheme (Approval) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1302",
      "affecting_title": "The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Levy (Variation) Scheme (Approval) Order 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/671/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:28:09.993225+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."
}