# The Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 2000

S.I. 2000/1404 · made 24 May 2000

For the purposes of financing the Home-Grown Cereals Authority’s non-trading functions under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 for the year beginning 1st July 2000, this Order specifies the rates of dealer levy, grower levy and processor levies which appear to the Ministers and the National Assembly for Wales to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain cereals grown in the United Kingdom, namely, wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oat, rye, maize, triticale, or any two more such cereals grown as one crop, and the rate of levy which appears to them to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain oilseeds grown in the United Kingdom, namely rapeseed, linseed, soyabean, sunflowerseed or any two or more of such oilseeds grown as one crop.

Made under: Cereals Marketing Act 1965 (repealed) (Section 13, Section 23, Section 24)

PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/home-grown-cereals-authority-rate-of-levy-order-2000/pdf/uksi_20001404_en.pdf

## Introductory text

AGRICULTURE
CEREALS MARKETING
Made 24th May 2000
Laid before Parliament 25th May 2000
Coming into force 1st July 2000
Whereas the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (hereinafter referred to as “the Authority”), established under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”), prepared and submitted to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Scottish Ministers and the National Assembly for Wales (“the Ministers and the National Assembly”), pursuant to section 13(1)(a) of the Act, an estimate of the amount required to be raised by levy imposed on persons specified in the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Cereals Levy Scheme 1987 and in the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme 1990 for the period of twelve months beginning with 1st July 2000 (hereinafter referred to as “the relevant year”) for the purposes of the Authority’s functions under Part I of the Act;
And whereas pursuant to section 13(2) of the Act the Authority duly submitted to the Ministers and the National Assembly, together with such estimate, proposals as to the kinds of home-grown cereals in respect of which a levy should be imposed and as to the apportionment of the amount of specified in the estimate as between those kinds of home-grown cereals;
And whereas pursuant to section 13(3) of the Act the Ministers and the National Assembly—
(a) have determined that the amount to be raised by levy for the relevant year for such purposes shall be £11,819,000 and that the kinds of home-grown cereals in respect of which the levy is to be imposed for the relevant year shall be wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oats, rye, maize, triticale or any two or more of those cereals grown as one crop, and rapeseed, linseed, soyabean, sunflowerseed or any two or more of those oilseeds grown as one crop; and
(b) have apportioned the amount so determined as between those cereals and those oilseeds so that the amount to be raised by levy in respect of the cereals is £10,734,000 and the amount to be so raised in respect of the oilseeds is £1,085,000 and the rates of levy on each kind of cereal or each kind of oilseed respectively are the same;
Now therefore, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the National Assembly for Wales acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 13(3), 23(1) and 24(1) of the Act, and now vested in them, andof all other powers enabling them in that behalf and with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, hereby make the following Order:

## 1 Title and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st July 2000.

## 2 Interpretation

In this Order—
(a) unless the context otherwise requires, expressions have the same meanings as they have in the Schemes;
(b) “the relevant year” means the period of twelve months beginning with 1st July 2000; and
(c) “the Schemes” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Cereals Levy Scheme 1987, as varied, and the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme 1990.

## 3 Rates of Levy

(1) For the relevant year the rates of levy per tonne of cereals delivered which appear to the Ministers and the National Assembly to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount apportioned to each kind of cereal shall in each case be—
(a) 50.8775 pence in respect of dealer levy,
(b) 47 pence in respect of grower levy,
(c) 9.69375 pence in respect of standard rate processor levy, and
(d) 4.7 pence in respect of reduced rate processor levy.
(2) For the relevant year the rate of levy per tonne of oilseeds delivered which appears to the Ministers and the National Assembly to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount apportioned to each kind of oilseed shall in each case be 76.375 pence.

## Signature

Joyce Quin
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
15th May 2000
Peter Mandelson
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
24th May 2000
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales:
Elis-Thomas
Presiding Officer
18th May 2000
We consent.
Ross Finnie
A member of the Scottish Executive
16th May 2000

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
For the purposes of financing the Home-Grown Cereals Authority’s non-trading functions under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 for the year beginning 1st July 2000, this Order specifies the rates of dealer levy, grower levy and processor levies which appear to the Ministers and the National Assembly for Wales to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain cereals grown in the United Kingdom, namely, wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oat, rye, maize, triticale, or any two more such cereals grown as one crop, and the rate of levy which appears to them to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain oilseeds grown in the United Kingdom, namely rapeseed, linseed, soyabean, sunflowerseed or any two or more of such oilseeds grown as one crop.
Levy will be imposed in accordance with provisions of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Cereals Levy Scheme 1987 (as varied) and the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme 1990, schemes in force under section 16 of the Act.
The Order comes into force on 1st July 2000.
No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.

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