The Quality Meat Scotland Order 2008

Scottish Statutory Instrument 2008 No. 77 — creates 5 criminal offences.

5offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 28 February 2008
In force from: 1 April 2008
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs
Made under: Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order ) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order creates a new body called Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) (Article 3). QMS has functions and duties relating to the beef, sheepmeat and pork industries. It operates for these industries in Scotland. The Order contains provisions for the constitution and proceedings of the Board (Article 4 and Schedule 2). The Board must raise levies relating to each industry (Article 6). Details of payment of the levies, and the maximum permitted levy, are set out in Schedule 3. Under that Schedule, failure to make a return relating to a levy is an offence. Article 5 permits QMS to delegate functions (specified in Schedule 1) to a subsidiary company. If demanded by a set percentage of levy payers in any given sector, the Board must hold a ballot on whether or not the levy system should continue in that sector (Articles 9, 10 and 11). Ballots can also be called by QMS or by the Scottish Ministers through a direction to QMS. Article 12 provides details of the reports and accounts which QMS must provide. Article 13 provides for specified required information which QMS must provide or make available. Article 14 provides for specified information which is to be made available to QMS by levy payers. Article 15 specifies the offences and penalties for breaches of particular aspects of the Order. The penalty for breach of the Order is a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (currently £5,000). A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies can be obtained from the Scottish Government Rural Directorate, Pentland House, 47 Robb’s Loan, Edinburgh, EH14 1TY.

Offences created by this instrument

Provision of information to Quality Meat Scotland article 14(2) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Returns by slaughterhouse occupiers paragraph 10(3) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
Payment of the by exporters paragraph 12(1) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
Enforcement paragraph 13(2) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
Failure to hold levy in trust paragraph 6 of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind

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Agriculture Bill (Twelfth sitting) Commons · Public Bill Committees · 15 November 2018 · George Eustice
Clause 34 sets out which legal jurisdictions are being changed by the Bill, recognising that England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have different bodies of law. Extent is different from application, which is about the persons or matters to which a provision relates. Retained EU legislation will form part of the body of law shared by all parts of the UK; therefore, provisions of the Bill that amend or provide for the amendment of retained EU law will extend to all UK jurisdictions. Those provisions may none the less apply differently in different parts of the UK. Where it…

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