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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-seed-potato-development-council-dissolution-order-1997/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2092",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Seed Potato Development Council (Dissolution) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-seed-potato-development-council-dissolution-order-1997",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power to impose and recover charges",
  "text": "(1) If the assets of the Council are insufficient to meet their liabilities and the expenses of the winding up, the Secretary of State shall have power for the purpose of making good the deficiencies to impose a charge or charges on each person upon whom a charge may be imposed in the crop year 1996 under article 6(1) of the principal Order computed according to the area of any crop of potatoes for which that person held a certificate issued in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Seed Potatoes Regulations 1991 in that crop year.\n(2) The provisions of article 6 of the principal Order shall apply in relation to any such charge, subject to the following modifications:–\n(a) the omission of paragraphs (1) and (2); and\n(b) the substitution in paragraph (3) for the reference to paragraph (1) of that article to paragraph (1) of this article;\n(c) the substitution for references to the Council of references to the Secretary of State.\n(3) Charges imposed under paragraph (1) of this article shall be computed to yield, as near as possible, a total amount equal to the amount by which the liabilities of the Council and the expenses of the winding up exceed the assets of the Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2206, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2092/article/5",
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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."
}