The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Order 2008

UK Statutory Instrument 2008 No. 576 — creates 14 criminal offences.

Made

28 February 2008

In force from

Not determined

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 dissolves— a the British Potato Council; b the Home-Grown Cereals Authority; c the Horticultural Development Council; d the Meat and Livestock Commission; e the Milk Development Council. and replaces them with a new body, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board has functions and duties relating to the following industries: beef, lamb and pigs, cereals and oilseeds, horticulture, milk and potatoes. It operates for each industry in the part of the United Kingdom specified in article 2. The Order contains provisions for the constitution and proceedings of the Board. Under article 5 the Board may establish a subsidiary company for each of the industries covered by the Order. 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. If demanded by a set number 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 11 and 12). There are offences relating to the provision of information and record-keeping (article 15). The penalty for breach of the Order is a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (currently£5,000). An impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available at www.defra.gov.uk/farm/policy/levy-bodies/index.htmhttp://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/policy/levy-bodies/index.htm.

Offences created by this instrument

• Provision of information to the Board article 15(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Provision of information to the Board article 15(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Returns paragraph 12(4) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Weekly returns paragraph 13(1) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Returns paragraph 16(3) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Information notices paragraph 17(2) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Payment of the levy paragraph 22(1) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Payment of the levy paragraph 22(2) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Returns by growers paragraph 25(1) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Returns by growers paragraph 25(2) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Returns by buyers paragraph 26(1) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Returns by a slaughterhouse occupier paragraph 5(3) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Returns and payment of the levy by exporters paragraph 7(1) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Enforcement paragraph 8(2) of SCHEDULE 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

• Draft Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Draft Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Draft Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Draft Common Agricultural Policy and Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Commons · General Committees · 25 March 2019 · Mr Goodwill

  We are all keen to get on today, are we not? I welcome a star-studded cast of Members on both sides of the Committee, especially my immediate predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Camborne and Redruth. For any particularly difficult questions that I cannot answer, and my officials cannot enlighten me on, I am sure that we can rely on him. As a farmer myself, and given the family business’s participation in an agri-environment scheme, I mention my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. The matters in the four draft statutory instruments are closely related, and I thank…

• Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2020 Lords · Grand Committee · 7 December 2020 · Lord Bhatia (Non-Afl) [V]

  This SI has been prepared by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It amends the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Order 2008 to assign additional functions to that board. These functions relate to collecting, managing and making available information regarding the identification, movement and health of animals and allocating unique identification codes to the means of identifying animals. This would provide a multi-species traceability system in England and facilitate the tracing of livestock movements across the UK. The department has established a subsidiary…

• DRAFT AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BOARD (AMENDMENT) ORDER 2022 Commons · General Committees · 18 May 2022 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Rebecca Pow)

  I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2022. As ever, it is a pleasure to have you in the Chair, Sir Gary. This statutory instrument, a draft of which was laid before the House on 29 March, will deliver a reformed and more accountable Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, which will play an important role supporting farmers through a time of significant transition. While the instrument marks an end of the AHDB’s levy work in the horticulture and potato sectors, it also marks an important new…

• Draft Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2023 Commons · General Committees · 19 July 2023 · The Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries (Mark Spencer)

  I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2023. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Robert. I will start by declaring my farming interests as set out in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. The draft statutory instrument delivers a package of modernising financial and operational improvements to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. I will highlight some of the fantastic work that the AHDB does: it invests about £42 million each year in a range of levy-funded services…

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