Cereals (Deficiency Payments) Order, 1955
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1955/962 |
| Year | 1955 |
1955 No. 962
The Cereals (Deficiency Payments) Order, 195527thApril 1955
1stJuly 1955
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for the Home Department (being the Secretaries of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively), in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section four of the Agriculture Act, 1947(a), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such bodies of persons as appear to each of them to represent the interests of growers of cereals, and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby severally make the following Order:—
1. This Order may be cited as the Cereals (Deficiency Payments) Order, 1955, and shall come into operation on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.
2.—(1) In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings respectively, that is to say—
"the appropriate Minister" means, in relation to England and Wales, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State for Scotland and, in relation to Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State for the Home Department;
"cereals" means wheat, rye, oats or barley;
"millable rye" means rye which is sweet and in fair merchantable condition, reasonably free from sprouted grains, commercially clean as regards admixture and tailings and commercially free from heated or mouldy grains or objectionable taint, and capable of being manufactured into a sound sweet flour or meal fit for human consumption having regard to the customary methods employed in the milling industry for cleaning and conditioning rye;
"millable wheat" means wheat which is sweet and in fair merchantable condition, reasonably free from sprouted or smutty grains, commercially clean as regards admixture and tailings and commercially free from heated or mouldy grains or objectionable taint, and capable of being manufactured into a sound sweet flour fit for human consumption having regard to the customary methods employed in the milling industry for cleaning and conditioning wheat;
"the Ministers" means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively, acting jointly;
"registered grower", in relation to any cereals, means...
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