# The Meat and Livestock Commission Levy Scheme (Confirmation) Order 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
By this Order the Ministers confirm the Meat and Livestock Commission Levy Scheme which revokes and replaces that confirmed by the Meat and Livestock Commission Levy Scheme (Confirmation) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/393), as varied (S.I. 1981/1066).
The Scheme—
(a) provides, in specified circumstances, for the imposition on and recovery from slaughterers and exporters of charges for the purpose of enabling the Commission to meet their expenses (paragraphs 3 and 4(1));
(b) specifies maximum charges in respect of general expenses and of species promotion expenses (paragraph 4(2));
(c) subject to these maximum charges and to an exemption for livestock slaughtered under the Animal Health Act 1981 or for brucellosis eradication under section 106 of the Agriculture Act 1970, authorises the Commission to levy such amounts as they think fit or to suspend the levy (paragraph 4(3) and (4));
(d) provides for the payment of charges to the Commission and their recovery from slaughterers and exporters (paragraph 5(1));
(e) authorises the Commission to determine that slaughterers may recover—
(i) from specified persons from whom they have purchased livestock, half of the sums attributable to general expenses and the whole of sums attributable to species promotion expenses;
(ii) from specified persons on whose instructions they have slaughtered livestock, the whole of any sum paid under the Scheme (paragraph 5(2));
(f) entitles slaughterers to make deductions from payments to the Commission in respect of expenses in exercising such right of recovery (paragraph 5(3));
(g) authorises the Commission to recover directly, in case of default in payment by slaughterers, the amounts which would otherwise have been payable indirectly (paragraph 5(4)) and to afford relief in respect of any sum which might reasonably be treated as irrecoverable by slaughterers (paragraph 5(5));
The Scheme also provides for registration of slaughterers and exporters (paragraph 6) and for keeping records and making returns by them (paragraph 7).
The principal changes to the 1979 Levy Scheme are the new provisions for levying separate charges in respect of species promotion expenses (paragraph 4(2)), and for the recovery of the whole of these charges by slaughterers (paragraph 5(2)).
Penalties are provided in section 14 of the Agriculture Act 1967, which has been amended by section 32(2) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43) and sections 37, 38 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1303/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/meat-and-livestock-commission-levy-scheme-confirmation-order-1987/note
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