Cereals Marketing Act 1965

13 Orders prescribing rates of levy

(1) Before the beginning of each year the Authority shall prepare and submit to the Ministers either—

(a) an estimate of the amount required to be raised by levy for that year for the purposes of the Authority's functions under Part I of this Act, or

(b) such an estimate as is mentioned in the preceding paragraph and also an estimate of the amount required to be raised by levy for that year for the purposes of the Authority's functions under Part II of this Act.

(2) Together with any estimate submitted under this section, the Authority shall submit to the Ministers proposals as to—

(a) the kinds of home-grown cereals in respect of which a levy should be imposed, and

(b) the apportionment of the amount specified in the estimate as between those kinds of home-grown cereals.

(3) As soon as practicable after the submission to the Ministers of one or more estimates for any year under this section, the Ministers shall—

(a) determine the amount to be raised by levy for that year for the purposes of the Authority's functions under Part I of this Act, and (where applicable) the amount to be so raised for the purposes of their functions under Part II of this Act, and the kinds of home-grown cereals in respect of which a levy is to be imposed for that year, and

(b) apportion the amount (or, as the case may be, each of the amounts) so determined as between those kinds of home-grown cereals, and

(c) make an order for that year specifying, in respect of each of those kinds of home-grown cereals, such rate of levy as appears to the Ministers to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount (or, as the case may be, the aggregate amount) apportioned to that kind of home-grown cereals under this subsection.

(4) The rates of levy specified in an order under this section may be expressed either by reference to quantity of home-grown cereals delivered or to acreage of land used for the growing of home-grown cereals or partly in the one way and partly in the other; and the order shall include provision as to the way in which any such quantity or acreage is to be determined for the purposes of the levy.

(5) The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect with respect to estimates and orders under this section, and otherwise with respect to levies under this Part of this Act.