Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006

Power to dissolve existing levy bodies and boards

91 Power to dissolve existing levy bodies

(1) The appropriate authority may by order provide for the dissolution of any or all of the existing levy bodies.

(2) If an order is made providing for the dissolution of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority, the order must provide for the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 (c. 14) to cease to have effect.

(3) If an order is made providing for the dissolution of the Meat and Livestock Commission, the order must provide for the relevant provisions of the Agriculture Act 1967 (c. 22) to cease to have effect.

(4) The relevant provisions of the 1967 Act are—

• Part 1 (livestock and meat marketing);

• Schedule 1 (the Meat and Livestock Commission);

• Schedule 2 (supplementary provisions with respect to development schemes).

(5) If an order is made providing for the dissolution of—

(a) the British Potato Council,

(b) the Horticultural Development Council, or

(c) the Milk Development Council,

the order must provide for the revocation of the development council order establishing the Council.

(6) “Development council order” has the meaning given by section 1(2) of the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 (c. 40) (power to establish development councils etc.).

92 Power to dissolve board

(1) The appropriate authority may by order provide for the dissolution of a board.

(2) An order under this section must provide for the revocation of the section 87 order.

93 Dissolution: supplementary

(1) Subsection (2) applies if an order is made providing for—

(a) the dissolution of an existing levy body, or

(b) the dissolution of a board.

(2) The order may provide for the transfer of any property, rights or liabilities of the existing levy body or board.

(3) Subsection (4) applies if an order is made providing for—

(a) the dissolution of an existing levy body, or

(b) the dissolution of a board in relation to which provision has been made by virtue of paragraph 5 of Schedule 10 (levies).

(4) The order must provide for the application of any surplus—

(a) for the purposes for which the existing levy body or board was established, or

(b) for connected purposes.

(5) “Surplus” means an amount by which the assets of the existing levy body or board exceeds its liabilities and expenses.