The Corn Returns Regulations 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 1873

AGRICULTURE

CORN CROPS

The Corn Returns Regulations 1997

Made

30th July 1997

Coming into force

1st August 1997

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4, 5 and 14 of the Corn Returns Act 1882(1) and now vested in them(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

1882 c. 37; section 4 was amended by section 18 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1943 (c. 16), and by sections 108(3)(a) and 113(3) of, and Part IV of Schedule 5 to, the Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40); section 5 was substituted by the Deregulation (Corn Returns Act 1882) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/848); section 14 was amended by section 18 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1943 and by section 108(3)(c) of the Agriculture Act 1970. The Act was extended, subject to the modifications specified therein, to Scotland by section 14 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 (c. 39).

(2)

In the case of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, by virtue of S.R. & O. 1891 (Rev. I, p. 614) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), as read with S.I. 1955/554; in the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272; in the case of the Secretary of State for Scotland, by virtue of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 (c. 39), section 14.