This is the original version (as it was originally enacted).
(1)The purposes referred to in section 87(1)(a) are—
(a)increasing efficiency or productivity in an agricultural or related industry;
(b)improving marketing in an agricultural or related industry;
(c)improving or developing services that an agricultural or related industry provides or could provide to the community;
(d)improving the ways in which an agricultural or related industry contributes to sustainable development.
(2)A section 87 order must specify—
(a)the purpose or purposes for which the board is established, and
(b)the industry to which the order relates.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), it does not matter whether the specified industry is regarded for any other purpose as—
(a)an industry,
(b)a group of industries, or
(c)a sector or sectors of an industry.
(4)“Agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, and the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds.
(5)“Related industry” means an industry which is concerned with the production, processing, manufacture, marketing or distribution of—
(a)anything (including any creature alive or dead) produced in the course of agriculture, and
(b)any product which is derived to any substantial extent from anything so produced.
(6)“Services” includes environmental and educational services.
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