Cereals (Guarantee Payments) Order 1964
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1964 No. 840
AGRICULTURE
GUARANTEED PRICES AND ASSURED MARKETS
The Cereals (Guarantee Payments) Order 19649thJune 1964
15thJune 1964
1stJuly 1964
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 1, 35(3) and 36(3) of the Agriculture Act 1957(a), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury and after consultation with such bodies of persons as appear to the said Ministers to represent the interests of producers of cereals, hereby make the following order:—
Citation, commencement, interpretation and revocation
1. This order may be cited as the Cereals (Guarantee Payments) Order 1964; and shall come into operation on 1st July 1964.
2.—(1) In this order, except where the context otherwise requires—
"cereals" means wheat, rye, oats or barley;
"determined" means determined by the Minister with the approval of the Treasury and as respects any guaranteed price to be determined in pursuance of this order means so determined by the Minister from time to time in the light of the conclusions of the Ministers from a review held under section 2 of the Agriculture Act 1947(b);
"guaranteed price", "target indicator price", "standard quantity", "annual production" and "average realised price" mean respectively the prices and quantities determined or ascertained pursuant to article 3 of this order;
"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;
(a) 5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 57.
(b) 10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 48.
"the Minister" in relation to any part of the United Kingdom means either that one of the Ministers who is concerned with agriculture in that part, or that Minister and either or both of the others acting jointly;
"the Ministers" means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland acting jointly;
"registered grower", in relation to any cereals, means the person for the time being registered by the Minister, in such manner and subject to such conditions as he may from time to time specify, as the grower of those cereals for the purposes of this order;
"year" means a period of twelve months commencing with the first day of July in any calendar year.
(2) The Cereals (Deficiency Payments) Order 1955(a) and the Cereals (Deficiency Payments) (Amendment) Order 1961(b) are hereby revoked.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889(c) shall apply to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the...
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