Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 1676

      The Horticultural Development Council (Amendment) Order 2002

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2002 No. 1676

INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND DEVELOPMENT

The Horticultural Development Council (Amendment) Order 2002

  Made 28th June 2002 
  Coming into force 1st October 2002 

The Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales, acting concurrently, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 4, 8 and 14(2) of the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947[1], and now vested in them[2], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers[3], and after consultation in accordance with section 8(1) of the said Act with the Horticultural Development Council and, in accordance with sections 1(3) and 8(1) of the said Act, with organisations appearing to them to be representative of substantial numbers of persons carrying on business in the horticultural industry and with such organisations representative of persons employed in that industry as appear to them to be appropriate, and having satisfied themselves (as required by section 4(3) of the said Act) that the incidence of the charges as between different classes of undertakings in that industry will be in accordance with a fair principle, hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament - 

Title and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Horticultural Development Council (Amendment) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st October 2002.

Interpretation
     2. In this Order - 

    "levy period" shall have the same meaning as in the principal Order; and

Amendment of the principal Order
     3. The principal Order shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.

     4. In article 2(1) of the principal Order - 

     5. For article 2(2) of the principal Order there shall be substituted the following paragraph - 


     6. In paragraph (2)(b) of article 9 of the principal Order, there shall be substituted for the words "costs associated with such preparation" the words "any rates levied in respect of such packhouses".

     7. In Schedule 1 to the principal Order - 

Saving
     8. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Order, the provisions of the principal Order in force prior to the coming into force of this Order shall continue to apply in respect of the imposition of charges for levy periods ending prior to the coming into force of this Order.


Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

28th June 2002



Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales


D. Elis-Thomas
Presiding Officer

27th June 2002



We consent


Ross Finnie
A member of the Scottish Executive

26th June 2002


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order, which comes into force on 1st October 2002, further amends the Horticultural Development Council Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1110) ("the principal Order"). This Order provides for new levy and accounting periods in article 2(2) of the principal Order (article 5) and makes consequential and other amendments to the definitions contained in article 2(1), and the levy provisions in article 9, of the principal Order (articles 4 and 6). This Order also adds for clarification two further categories to the list of horticultural produce specified in Schedule 1 to the principal Order (article 7). Finally, this Order introduces a saving in respect of levy arrangements applying to earlier levy periods (article 8).

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.

Notes:

 [1] 1947 c.40; section 4 was modified, in the case of any development council order relating to agriculture, by section 60 of the Agriculture Act 1993 (c.37).back

[2] In respect of the Secretary of State, by virtue of S.I. 1955/554, 1978/272, 1999/672, 3141 and 2002/794; in respect of the National Assembly for Wales, by virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) ("the 1999 Order"), in so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. The Horticultural Development Council is a cross-border body as defined in Schedule 3, paragraph 3(2), to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c.38). By virtue of article 2(c) of the 1999 Order, functions under the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 which are exercisable in relation to a cross-border body, and which cannot be specifically exercised in relation to Wales, are exercisable by the National Assembly for Wales in relation to that body concurrently with the specified Minister of the Crown.back

[3] By the Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Specification) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1319), made under section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), the Horticultural Development Council was specified as a cross-border public authority for the purposes of that Act. By article 3 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 14 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Adaptation of Functions etc.) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1747) it was provided, in respect of any function exercisable by a Minister of the Crown under the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 to modify the Horticultural Development Council Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1110), that the Secretary of State for Scotland should cease to be such a Minister of the Crown, and that any such function should now be exercisable only with the consent of the Scottish Ministers.back

[4] S.I. 1986/1110, as amended by S.I. 1990/454, 1992/1836 and 2000/1975.back


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