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Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023

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26Meaning of “agri-food supply chain”

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(1)This section has effect for the purposes of this Chapter.

(2)An “agri-food supply chain” is a supply chain for providing individuals with items of food or drink for personal consumption where the items consist of or include, or have been produced using (directly or indirectly, and whether or not exclusively), the whole or part of—

(a)anything grown or otherwise produced in carrying on agriculture,

(b)any animal kept in carrying on agriculture, or

(c)any animal or other thing taken from the wild.

(3)The persons in an agri-food supply chain are—

(a)the individuals being provided with items of food and drink as described in subsection (2) (“the ultimate consumers”),

(b)the persons carrying on the agriculture or (as the case may be) taking things from the wild, and

(c)any person in the supply chain between those persons and the ultimate consumers.

(4)The persons “closely connected” with an agri-food supply chain are—

(a)any person supplying seeds, stock, equipment, feed, fertiliser, pesticides, medicines or similar items to the persons within subsection (3)(b) for use in the agriculture or taking,

(b)any person providing, to persons within subsection (3)(b) or (c), services related to—

(i)the health of animals, or plants, involved in the supply chain, or

(ii)the safety or quality of the food or drink to be provided to the ultimate consumers,

(c)any person carrying on activities capable of affecting a matter mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b), and

(d)bodies representing persons within any of paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (3) and paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this subsection.

(5)Activities of the kind mentioned in subsection (4)(c) are to be treated for the purposes of section 25(1) and (2) as connected with the supply chain, but this is not to be read as limiting the generality of “connected” in section 25(1) and (2).

(6)In this section, “seeds” includes bulbs and other things from which plants grow.

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