Agricultural Marketing Act 1983

Section 3.

SCHEDULE 2 Transfer of Functions and Dissolution of the Central Council for Agricultural and Horticultural Co-operation

1 The property, rights and liabilities of the Central Council are hereby transferred to Food from Britain.

2 (1) Paragraph 1 above has effect to transfer to Food from Britain rights and obligations of the Central Council under contracts of employment with its officers and servants ; and for the purpose of determining the length of service as an officer or servant of Food from Britain of any person who became such by virtue of paragraph 1 above any service by that person with the Central Council shall be treated as service with Food from Britain.

(2) Any determination made under paragraph 9(2)(b) of Schedule 6 to the [1967 c. 22.] Agriculture Act 1967 in respect of any person shall be treated after the appointed day (so far as may be necessary to preserve its effect) as having been made under paragraph 11(2)(b) of Schedule 1 to this Act, and any pension scheme maintained by the Central Council immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to be a pension scheme provided by Food from Britain under paragraph l1(2)(b) of Schedule 1 to this Act and shall continue to be maintained accordingly.

3 (1) The repeal of section 59 of the Agriculture Act 1967 shall not have effect in respect of any period ending on or before the appointed day which is or is part of a financial year of the Central Council if any function of the Central Council relating to that period has not been performed before that day; and any such function is accordingly transferred by virtue of paragraph 1 above to Food from Britain.

(2) The period beginning with the 1st April preceding the appointed day and ending with the day before the appointed day shall be the last financial year of the Central Council and section 59 shall have effect (by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above) in relation to that period accordingly but with the substitution for the reference in subsection (3) to the 30th September of a reference to the last day of the period of six months beginning with the appointed day.

4 Any enactment or other instrument passed or made before the appointed day, except section 58(8) of the Agriculture Act 1967, shall have effect as if any reference to the Central Council were a reference to Food from Britain.

5 Anything done by or in relation to the Central Council and having effect immediately before the appointed day shall so far as is required for continuing its effect thereafter be treated as if it had been done by or in relation to Food from Britain, and anything then in the process of being done by or in relation to the Central Council (including in particular any legal proceedings then pending to which the Central Council is a party) may be continued by or in relation to Food from Britain.

6 In section 58(9) of the Agriculture Act 1967 there shall be added at the end the words " under this Part of this Act " .

7 In section 60(3) of that Act for the words " the last foregoing section " there shall be substituted the words " section 5(6) of the Agricultural Marketing Act 1983 " .

8 In this Schedule " the appointed day " means the day on which this Schedule comes into force.