The Agriculture Act 1986 (Commencement No. 6)Order 1998

Made19th March 1998

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 24(2) of the Agriculture Act 19861, make the following Order:

1.

This Order may be cited as the Agriculture Act 1986 (Commencement No. 6) Order 1998.

2.

The day appointed for the coming into force of—

(a)

section 8(4) of the Agriculture Act 1986 (substitution of new paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Agricultural Marketing Act 19832);

(b)

section 8(5) of the Agriculture Act 1986 and the repeal consequential thereon (repeal of certain words in paragraph 6 of the said Schedule 1); and

(c)

section 8(6) of the Agriculture Act 1986 and the repeals consequential thereon (repeal of certain words in paragraph 11(2) of the said Schedule 1);

shall be 1st April 1998.

Donoughue

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

16th March 1998

Sewel

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office

17th March 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office

17th March 1998

Dubs

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office

19th March 1998

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st April 1998—

(a)

section 8(4) of the Agriculture Act 1986 (1986 c. 49);

(b)

section 8(5) of that Act and the repeal consequential thereon; and

(c)

section 8(6) of that Act and the repeals consequential thereon.

The above sections make a number of amendments to Schedule 1 to the Agricultural Marketing Act 1983 (1983 c. 3). The provisions amended relate to the determination and payment of remuneration and other payments payable to members, officers and servants of Food from Britain and to members of committees of Food from Britain. The effect of these amendments is:

(i)

to enable all such payments to be made by Food From Britain without any requirement for the approval of the Ministers and of the Treasury; and

(ii)

in the case of payments to Members of Food from Britain, to enable the payments to be made by Food from Britain instead of by the Ministers.

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Agriculture Act 1986 have been brought into force by commencement Orders made before the date of this Order:

Provisions	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
Sections 13 and 15	25th September 1986	1986/1484 (C. 50)
Sections 14 and 16	25th September 1986	1986/1485 (C. 51) (S. 117)
Section 8(2)	8th September 1986	1986/1596 (C. 57)
Section 10	31st December 1986	1986/2301 (C. 94)
Section 24(5) and Schedule 4 (insofar as they relate to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (1975 c. 24) and the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (1975 c. 25))	21st November 1991	1991/2635 (C. 77)