The Cereals Co-responsibility Levy Regulations 1988
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AGRICULTURE The Cereals Co-responsibility Levy Regulations 1988
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Cereals Co-responsibility Levy Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st July 1988.
2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations have, in so far as the context admits, the same meanings as in the Council Regulation and the Commission Regulation. (3) When two or more persons jointly undertake purchasing of cereals by way of business, they shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be treated as constituting a single person. (4) In these Regulations—
3. These Regulations provide for the administration, collection and enforcement of cereals co-responsibility levy.
4.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the Board shall keep a register in which it shall enter the current particulars of traders furnished under regulation 5. (2) The particulars of a trader which are specified in Parts I and II of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be entered in Parts I and II respectively of the register kept under this regulation. (3) The Board shall, during normal working hours, permit any person to inspect any particulars entered in Part I of the register kept under this regulation or shall forward a copy of those particulars to him if he so requests. (4) The Board shall, during normal working hours, permit any trader to inspect the particulars relating to his business entered in Part II of the register kept under this regulation or shall forward a copy of those particulars to him if he requests.
5.—(1) Every person who on the date on which these Regulations come into force is, or on a subsequent date becomes, a trader, shall within 21 days of that date furnish to the Board for entry in the register kept under regulation 4 the particulars specified in the Schedule to these Regulations. (2) Where any change occurs in the particulars required to be furnished by a trader under paragraph (1) above he shall within 21 days of the change furnish amended particulars to the Board. (3) Where a trader dies or becomes incapacitated or bankrupt or, in Scotland, where his estate is sequestrated or where he enters into a trust deed for his creditors, any person carrying on his business as a trader, being an executor, personal representative, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee in a trust deed for creditors, receiver, judicial factor, liquidator, or person otherwise acting in a representative capacity, shall within 21 days of commencing to do so furnish to the Board particulars of that fact, of his name and address for correspondence, of the date of the death or of the nature of the incapacity and the date on which it began. (4) Where a person ceases to carry on a business as a trader he shall, within 10 days of the date on which he does so, furnish to the Board particulars of—
(5) The information required to be furnished under the foregoing provisions of this regulation shall be furnished to the Board in writing.
6. Any seed merchant shall upon demand made by an authorised officer supply in writing such information relating to the quantity, variety and source of the cereal seed certified by him as the Board may require for the purposes of the collection of cereals co-responsibility levy.
7.—(1) On or before any date on which a payment of co-responsibility levy is due by virtue of Article 4(1) of the Commission Regulation, a trader who during the period identified by that Article in relation to that date has not carried out any of the transactions referred to in Article 2(1) of that Regulation shall make to the Board a written declaration of that fact. (2) Every trader shall on request produce the accounts and records referred to in Article 6 of the Commission Regulation to an authorised officer and permit him to take copies and make extracts from them. (3) Every trader shall retain the accounts and records referred to in Article 6 of the Commission Regulation for a period of 5 years from the end of the cereals marketing year to which they relate. (4) Any person engaged by way of business in the production, transport, storage, processing or sale of cereals shall upon demand made by an authorised officer, produce or cause to be produced any documents relating to such activities or transactions for inspection by the authorised officer and permit him to take copies from them. (5) Any person engaged by way of business in the purchase, processing or sale of cereals shall on request supply in writing to an authorised officer such information relating to the stocks of cereals which have been held by him and to his purchases and sales of cereals as that officer may require.
8.—(1) For the purpose of exercising any powers under these Regulations, an authorised officer may at any reasonable time enter premises used in connection with the production, transport, storage, processing or sale of cereals by way of business. (2) Where an authorised officer has reasonable cause to believe that any premises are used in connection with cereals by way of business he may at any reasonable time enter and inspect those premises and inspect any cereals found on them.
9. An authorised officer acting in exercise of the powers conferred by regulation 7 or 8 shall carry a warrant of his authority so to act and shall produce it on demand.
10. Cereals co-responsibility levy due from any person shall be recoverable by the Board summarily as a civil debt.
11. If any person—
12.—(1) Where an offence under these Regulations which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or a similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. (2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, the provisions of paragraph (1) above shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.
13. The Cereals Co-responsibility Levy Regulations 1986[7] are hereby revoked.
Notes: [2] 1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read, as regards England and Wales, with sections 37, 40 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), and S.I. 1984/447, as regards Scotland, with section 289 F and 289 G of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), as inserted by section 54 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 and S.I. 1984/526 and, as regards Northern Ireland, with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.R. (N.I.) 1984 No. 253. back [3] OJ No. L131, 27.5.88, p.37. back [4] OJ No. L281, 1.11.1975, p.1. back [5] The relevant amending instruments are Council Regulations 1579/86 (OJ No. L139, 24.5.86, p.29 and 1079/88 (OJ No. L110, 29.4.88, p.7) and Commission Regulation 3989/87 (OJ No. L377, 31.12.87, p.1). back [6] 1965 c. 14; Part I was amended by sections 4 and 24(3) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49). back |
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