Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order approves further amendments of the Potato Marketing Scheme 1955, (“the Scheme”).

The amendments—

(a)

increase the maximum monetary penalty which the Disciplinary Committee may impose on any registered producer under the provisions of paragraph 83(1)(a) of the Scheme from two hundred to two thousand pounds;

(b)

increase the maximum excess area contribution provided for in paragraph 84(2)(b) of the Scheme, which is currently fixed at five times the formula rate (as defined in paragraph 84(3)(a) of the Scheme) as follows—

(i)

with effect from 1st March 1987 to seven times the formula rate;

(ii)

with effect from 1st January 1989 to ten times the formula rate.