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Statutory Instruments
AGRICULTURE
Made
23rd February 1987
Coming into force
1st March 1987
Whereas the Potato Marketing Board duly submitted to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales (hereinafter called "the Ministers") certain amendments of the Potato Marketing Scheme 1955(1), which amendments as subsequently modified by the Ministers are set out in the Schedule hereto;
And whereas the Ministers laid before each House of Parliament the amendments set out in the said Schedule and the House of Commons resolved on 5th February 1987 and the House of Lords resolved on 5th February 1987 that they should be approved;
1. This Order may be cited as the Potato Marketing Scheme (Amendment) Order 1987.
2. The amendments of the Potato Marketing Scheme 1955 which are set out in the Schedule hereto are hereby approved and shall come into force on 1st March 1987.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 22nd February 1987.
L.S.
Michael Jopling
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
John J. Mackay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
23rd February 1987.
Nicholas Edwards
Secretary of State for Wales
23rd February 1987.
Article 2
1. In paragraph 83(1)(a), for the words "two hundred pounds" there shall be substituted the words "two thousand pounds".
2. In paragraph 84(2)(b), for the words "five times the formula rate as defined in paragraph 84(3)(a)", there shall be substituted the words "seven times the formula rate with effect from 1st March 1987 and ten times the formula rate with effect from 1st January 1989".
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order approves further amendments of the Potato Marketing Scheme 1955, ("the Scheme").
The amendments-
(a)increase the maximum monetary penalty which the Disciplinary Committee may impose on any registered producer under the provisions of paragraph 83(1)(a) of the Scheme from two hundred to two thousand pounds;
(b)increase the maximum excess area contribution provided for in paragraph 84(2)(b) of the Scheme, which is currently fixed at five times the formula rate (as defined in paragraph 84(3)(a) of the Scheme) as follows-
(i)with effect from 1st March 1987 to seven times the formula rate;
(ii)with effect from 1st January 1989 to ten times the formula rate.
