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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8</dc:identifier><dc:title>Horticulture Act 1960</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to make provision for assisting the production and marketing of horticultural produce.</dc:description><dc:date>1981-08-01</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2015-03-16</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2004-07-22</dct:valid>
					
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          <CommentaryRef Ref="c624362"/>Part I</Number><P1group RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictEndDate="1993-11-05" Match="false"><Title> Interpretation of Part I.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8" id="section-8"><Pnumber>8</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1" id="section-8-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In this Part of this Act “<Term id="term-horticultural-produce">horticultural produce</Term>” means—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/a" id="section-8-1-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>fruit,</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/b" id="section-8-1-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>vegetables of a kind grown for human consumption, including fungi, but not including maincrop potatoes or peas grown for seed, for harvesting dry or for vining,</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/c" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/c" id="section-8-1-c"><Pnumber>c</Pnumber><P3para><Text>flowers, pot plants and decorative foliage,</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/d" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/d" id="section-8-1-d"><Pnumber>d</Pnumber><P3para><Text>herbs,</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/e" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/e" id="section-8-1-e"><Pnumber>e</Pnumber><P3para><Text>seeds other than pea seeds, and bulbs and other material, being seeds, bulbs or material for sowing or planting for the production of fruit, of such vegetables, flowers, plants or foliage as aforesaid, or of herbs, or for reproduction of the seeds, bulbs or other material planted, or</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/f" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/1/f" id="section-8-1-f"><Pnumber>f</Pnumber><P3para><Text>trees and shrubs, other than trees grown for the purpose of afforestation;</Text></P3para></P3><Text>but does not include hops.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/2" id="section-8-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In this Part of this Act “<Term id="term-horticultural-production-business">horticultural production business</Term>” means a business which consists, or so much of a larger business as consists, of the growing in the United Kingdom of horticultural produce for sale or the growing of produce as aforesaid and its storage, preparation for market or transport.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/34" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/34" id="section-8-34"><Pnumber PuncAfter="), (4)">3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c624387"/></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/22/section/8/5" id="section-8-5"><Pnumber>5</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In this Part of this Act “<Term id="term-preparation-for-market">preparation for market</Term>” does not include canning, bottling, pulping or cooking, or preserving by sterilisation by freezing, by de-hydrating, by heat or by chemical process.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c624362" Type="F"><Para><Text>Pt. I (ss. 1-8) repealed (5.11.1993) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/50" id="c00006" Year="1993" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="50">1993 c. 50</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00007" CitationRef="c00006" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/50/schedule/1/part/II" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1-part-II">Sch. 1 Pt.II</CitationSubRef>.</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c624387" Type="F"><Para><Text>Ss. 8(3)(4), 9—12, 16, 17(1), 19 repealed by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/39" id="c00164" Year="1973" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="39" Title="Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973">Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00165" CitationRef="c00164" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1973/39/schedule/1/part/VIII" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1-part-VIII">Sch. 1 Pt. VIII</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>