# The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Levy Scheme (Approval) Order 1987, Paragraph 2: Interpretation


(1) In this Scheme:—
“the Act” means the Cereals Marketing Act 1965;
“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;
“the Authority” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority as established under Part I of the Act;
“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;
“dealer” means any person (other than an overseas purchaser or the Intervention Board) trading as a wholesale buyer or seller of cereals;
“dealer levy” means the levy imposed by paragraph 4;
“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;
“grower” means any person who grows cereals;
“grower levy” means the levy imposed by paragraph 5;
“Intervention Board” means the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce established under the European Communities Act 1972;
“levy” means a levy imposed by this Scheme;
“month” means a calendar month;
“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;
“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;
“processor levy” means the levy imposed by paragraph 6;
“quarter” means a period of three consecutive calendar months ending on 31st October, 31st January, 30th April or 31st July;
“registrable person” means a dealer, a processor, an agent intermediary or a financial intermediary;
“year” means a period of twelve months beginning with 1st August and ending on 31st July in any calendar year.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/671/schedule/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/home-grown-cereals-authority-levy-scheme-approval-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-2
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