1975 No. 655
The Measurements of Cereals for Import and Export Purposes Regulations 1975
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into Operation
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measurements of cereals for import and export purposes, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1
These regulations may be cited as the Measurements of Cereals for Import and Export Purposes Regulations 1975 and shall come into operation on 19th May 1975.
2
1
In these regulations,—
“Community” means the European Economic Community;
“the Community provisions” means Council Directive No.71/347/EEC2 on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to the measuring of the standard mass per storage volume of grain, as amended3, and any instrument replacing, supplementing or further amending that directive.
2
The Interpretation Act 1889shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Unit of measurement of standard mass per storage volume for use in intra-Community trade in cereals3
It is hereby declared that the unit of measurement of the characteristic of standard mass per storage volume for the purposes of the import and export trades in cereals between the United Kingdom and other Member States of the Community shall be the EEC standard mass per storage volume as defined in the Community provisions, and any expression of that characteristic in other terms shall have no effect.
Prohibition of misuse of the EEC standard mass per storage volume
4
1
No person shall, for the purposes of the trades mentioned in regulation 3 above, use the term “EEC standard mass per storage volume” to designate a characteristic of cereals which has been measured or calculated otherwise than in accordance with the requirements of the Community provisions.
2
Any person who contravenes the provision set out in paragraph (1) of this regulation shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £20.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 17th April 1975.