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(1)The appropriate Minister, after consultation with the [F1processors of home-grown beet] and with any body which in that Minister’s opinion is substantially representative of growers of home-grown beet—
(a)shall prepare for each year a programme for carrying out research and education in matters affecting the growing of home-grown beet; and
(b)may by order provide for carrying any such programme into effect.
(2)Any such programme for any year shall contain an estimate of the amount of the expenditure to be incurred in carrying it out; and any order made for carrying such a programme into effect shall, in particular, provide—
(a)for assessing the contributions towards defraying such expenditure to be made by the [F1processors of home-grown beet] and by every grower of home-grown beet who delivers beet to the [F1processors of home-grown beet] in that year; and
(b)for the collection of such contributions and the recovery of unpaid contributions by the appropriate Minister.
(3)All contributions paid in accordance with an order under subsection (1) shall be paid into a research and education fund.
(4)All expenditure certified by the appropriate Minister to have been properly incurred in carrying out any programme prepared under this section (including expenditure incurred by him or on his behalf) shall be defrayed out of the fund mentioned in subsection (3).
(5)That fund shall be under the Minister’s control; and an account showing the revenue and expenditure of the fund for any year shall, not later than 30th November in the year following that to which it relates, be transmitted by the Minister to the Comptroller and Auditor General, who shall examine and certify the account and lay copies of it, together with his report on it, before Parliament.
[F2(5A)An order under this section shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.]
(6)In this section—
“the appropriate Minister”—
(a)in relation to a programme or order extending to the whole of Great Britain, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly,
(b)in relation to a programme or order extending only to England and Wales, means the Minister and the Secretary of State, acting jointly,
(c)in relation to a programme or order extending only to Scotland, means the Secretary of State;
[F3“year” means a period of 12 months beginning with 1st April;
and in this section and sections 69 and 69A “home-grown beet” means sugar beet grown in Great Britain]
Subordinate Legislation Made
P1S. 68: for exercises of power see Index to Government Orders
S. 68 power exercised by S.I.1991/393
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), ss. 52, 54, Sch. 2 para. 13
F3Definitions substituted by Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), ss. 52, 54, Sch. 2 para. 13(3)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 68: transfer of functions (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 2(5)(7))
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