The Potato Industry Development Council (Amendment) Order 1999

Amendment of the principal Order

3.  In article 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)–

(a) immediately after the definition of “the Act” there shall be inserted the following definition–

““catering establishment” means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;”;

(b) the definition of “first point of sale” shall be deleted;

(c) immediately after the definition of “the Ministers” there shall be inserted the following definition–

““point of sale” means the point at which a person carrying on business in the industry takes delivery of potatoes, with or without the exchange of monies, either as a first purchaser or as a subsequent purchaser;”;

(d) for the definition of “processing” there shall be substituted the following definition–

““processing”, in relation to raw potatoes, means an operation carried out upon raw potatoes which includes peeling, slicing, heating, pasteurising, canning, freezing, drying, or any other similar operation which alters the raw potatoes, and “processed” and “processes” shall be construed accordingly;”;

(e) immediately after the definition of “producers' co-operative” there shall be inserted the following definition–

““subsequent purchaser” means a person, not being a first purchaser, who would be a first purchaser of raw potatoes if the words “where those potatoes have not previously been sold or delivered to an agent” were omitted from the definition of “first purchaser”, but does not include–

(a)

a catering establishment, or

(b)

a retail seller of potatoes;”.