The Corn Returns Regulations 1997

Title, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Corn Returns Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st August 1997.

(2) These Regulations shall apply to Great Britain.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“the Act” means the Corn Returns Act 1882;

“the Authority” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority, established by the Cereals Marketing Act 1965(1);

“return” means a return made in pursuance of section 5 of the Act of purchases of British corn.

Prescribed areas for making returns

3.  The areas prescribed in accordance with section 4 of the Act (from which areas weekly returns are to be made) shall be those areas listed in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Making of returns

4.—(1) Any person required by section 5 of the Act (weekly returns of purchases of British corn) to make a return shall, save where he and the Authority have agreed that he shall do so in some other manner, either—

(a) do so in writing, and sign it, and then post it by first class post, or

(b) complete it in such a way that it is capable of being easily read after transmission by facsimile machine, and then send it by means of such a machine,

to the Authority on each Friday (or, if that Friday is a public holiday, the next working day) occurring next after a period for which he is required to make a return.

(2) A return shall contain the information specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations, and shall relate to the period of seven days (starting on a Friday) most recently preceding the day on which it is required to be posted or sent to the Authority.

(3) A separate return shall be made for each of the prescribed areas from which the person required to make the return purchased British corn by wholesale from the grower, or if no such purchase was made during the seven-day period in question a return shall be made stating that fact.

Revocations

5.  The Corn Returns Regulations 1976(2), the Corn Returns (Scotland) Regulations 1976(3), the Corn Returns (Scotland) (Variation) Regulations 1990(4), and the Corn Returns (Variation) Regulations 1990(5) are hereby revoked.

Donoughue

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

28th July 1997

Win Griffiths

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office

30th July 1997

Sewel

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office

28th July 1997