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Agriculture Act 2020, Paragraph 11 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 30 October 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

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11(1)This paragraph has effect for the purposes of this Part.N.I.

(2)An “agri-food supply chain” is a supply chain for providing individuals with items of food or drink for personal consumption where the items consist of or include, or have been produced using (directly or indirectly, and whether or not exclusively), the whole or part of—

(a)anything grown or otherwise produced in carrying on agriculture,

(b)any creature kept in carrying on agriculture, or

(c)any creature or other thing taken from the wild.

(3)The persons in an agri-food supply chain are—

(a)those individuals (“the ultimate consumers”),

(b)the persons carrying on the agriculture or (as the case may be) taking things from the wild, and

(c)anybody in the supply chain between those persons and the ultimate consumers.

(4)The persons “closely connected” with an agri-food supply chain are—

(a)anybody supplying seeds, stock, equipment, feed, fertiliser, pesticides, medicines or similar items to the persons within sub-paragraph (3)(b) for use in the agriculture or taking,

(b)anybody providing, to persons within sub-paragraph (3)(b) or (c), services related to—

(i)the health of creatures, or plants, involved in the supply chain, or

(ii)the safety or quality of the food or drink to be provided to the ultimate consumers,

(c)any person carrying on activities capable of affecting a matter mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b), and

(d)bodies representing persons within any of paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-paragraph (3) and paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this sub-paragraph.

(5)Activities of the kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (4)(c) are to be treated for the purposes of paragraph 10(1) and (2) as connected with the supply chain, but this is not to be read as limiting the generality of “connected” in paragraph 10(1) and (2).

(6)In this paragraph—

  • agriculture” includes any growing of plants, and any keeping of creatures, for the production of food or drink;

  • plants” includes fungi;

  • seeds” includes bulbs and other things from which plants grow.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 6 para. 11 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes and otherwise at 11.1.2021, see s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6)

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