Agriculture Act 1970

107 Provision for improving marketing of home-grown maize

(1) Subsection (2) of this section shall have effect for the purpose of improving the marketing of maize grown in the United Kingdom.

(2) The [1965 c. 14.] Cereals Marketing Act 1965 shall have effect—

(a) as if—

(i) in section 6 of that Act (which for the purpose specified in section 1(1) of that Act, that is to say, for the purpose of improving the marketing of homegrown cereals within the meaning of that Act, confers on the Home-Grown Cereals Authority certain non-trading functions with respect to the compilation and dissemination of information, the conducting of research or other experimental work and other matters); and

(ii) in section 7 of that Act (which for the purpose specified as aforesaid enables orders to confer additional non-trading functions on the said Authority),

the reference in subsection (1) of the said section 6 or 7 to the purpose specified in section 1(1) of that Act included a reference to the purpose specified in subsection (1) of this section ; and

(b) as if, notwithstanding the provisions as to interpretation contained in section 24(2) and (3) of that Act, any reference in the said section 6 to cereals or to homegrown cereals included a reference to maize or, as the case may be, to maize grown in the United Kingdom;

but no order under the said section 7 shall confer on the Authority aforesaid for the purpose specified in subsection (1) of this section any functions which could not have been conferred on the Authority by such an order if every reference in Part I of that Act to cereals or to home-grown cereals had included a reference to maize or, as the case may be, to maize grown in the United Kingdom.