Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 2110

AGRICULTURE

The Butter (EEC Special Sale) (Revocation) Regulations 1988

Made

1st December 1988

Laid before Parliament

9th December 1988

Coming into force

1st January 1989

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—

Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Butter (EEC Special Sale) (Revocation) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st January 1989.

Revocation

2.  The Butter (EEC Special Sale) Regulations 1986(3) and the Butter (EEC Special Sale) (Amendment) Regulations 1986(4) are revoked.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 1st December 1988.

L.S.

John MacGregor

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office.

30th November 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Butter (EEC Special Sale) Regulations 1986 as amended by the Butter (EEC Special Sale) (Amendment) Regulations 1986 which prescribed, in addition to requirements as to packaging, maximum retail prices for concentrated butter (in the form of butter oil or butter ghee) produced from butter sold out of intervention stocks at a reduced price, pursuant to Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3143/85 (OJ No. L298, 12.11.85, p.9). Article 8 was deleted by Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3157/86 (OJ No. L294, 17.10.86, p.8).

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(2)

1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read, as regards Scotland, with sections 289F and 289F 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.

(3)

S.I. 1986/68.

(4)

S.I. 1986/1373.