The Milk Marketing Board (England and Wales) (Revocations) Regulations 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 955

Agriculture, England And Wales

The Milk Marketing Board (England and Wales) (Revocations) Regulations 2015

Made

26th March 2015

Laid before Parliament

27th March 2015

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

27th March 2015

Coming into force

1st July 2015

The Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 14(2) and (3) and 62(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 42(3)(a), 43(3) and 44(2)(a) of Schedule 2 to, the Agriculture Act 1993(1), and now vested in them(2):

Citation and commencement E+W+S

1.  These Regulations may be referred to as the Milk Marketing Board (England and Wales) (Revocations) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st July 2015.

Revocations E+W+S

2.  The following Regulations are revoked—

(a) the Milk Marketing Board Scheme of Reorganisation (Third Party Rights) Regulations 1994(3);

(b) the Milk Marketing Board (Residuary Functions) Regulations 1994(4); and

(c) the Milk Marketing Board (Residuary Functions) (Amendment) Regulations 2001(5).

George Eustice

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

25th March 2015

Rebecca Evans

Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, under authority of the Minister for Natural Resources, one of the Welsh Ministers

26th March 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke three statutory instruments in relation to the Milk Marketing Board that are now spent or redundant.

No impact assessment has been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside the instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk

(1)

1993 c. 37.

(2)

The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794); under the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), sections 22 and 24, and the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1, the functions of the Secretary of State under the Agriculture Act 1993 in relation to Wales were transferred to National Assembly for Wales and subsequently, by the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32), section 162, and paragraph 30 to Schedule 11, to the Welsh Ministers.

(3)

S.I. 1994/2460.

(4)

S.I. 1994/2759.

(5)

S.I. 2001/3507.