{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-grown-cereals-authority-oilseeds-levy-scheme-approval-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-grown-cereals-authority-oilseeds-levy-scheme-approval-order-1990/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1317",
  "legislation_title": "The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme (Approval) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-grown-cereals-authority-oilseeds-levy-scheme-approval-order-1990",
  "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 or overseas purchaser;\n“the Authority” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority as established under Part I of the Act;\n“dealer” means any person (other than an overseas purchaser or the Intervention Board) who is a wholesale buyer of oilseeds from a grower;\n“financial intermediary” means any person other than a grower, dealer, overseas purchaser or agent intermediary who in the course of his business acts as an intermediary in the buying and selling of oilseeds;\n“grower” means any person who grows oilseeds;\n“half-year” means a period of six consecutive months ending on 31st December or 30th June;\n“Intervention Board” means the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce established under section 6 of the European Communities Act 1972;\n“levy” means a levy imposed by this Scheme;\n“month” means a calendar month;\n“oilseeds” means oilseeds grown in the United Kingdom being rapeseed, linseed, soyabean or sunflowerseed or any two or more of such oilseeds grown as one crop;\n“overseas purchaser” means any person who is a wholesale buyer of oilseeds from a grower and who does not have a place of business in the United Kingdom;\n“registrable person” means a dealer, an agent intermediary, a financial intermediary or a grower who sells oilseeds direct to an overseas purchaser;\n“year” means a period of twelve months beginning with 1st July in any year and ending on 30th June in the subsequent 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"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1317/schedule/paragraph/2",
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  },
  "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."
}