- Enforced by
- AHDB
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 8 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 7 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Occupier4
Any Person3
Trader1
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Occupier — also bound by 235 other Acts
Highways Act 1980
23 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts
Value Added Tax Regulations 1995
416 duties
Companies Act 2006
243 duties
Companies Act 1985
85 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
18 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art001
Title, commencement and extent
s.art002
Scope
s.art003
Establishment of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
s.art004
Constitution etc. of the Board
s.art005
Acting through subsidiaries
s.art006
Levies
s.art007
Estimates
s.art008
Charges for services
s.art009
Reserve funds etc.
s.art010
Incidental Powers
s.art011
Ballots
s.art012
Who can vote
s.art013
Report and accounts
s.art014
Provision of information by the Board
s.art015
Provision of information to the Board
s.art016
Penalties and proceedings
s.art017
Dissolution of existing bodies
s.art018
Repeals, etc.
Schedules
Schedules
8 of 71 shown
s.sch003
Returns and payment of the levy
Regulated
- Notify AHDB of cereal or oilseed purchases and pay the levyAny Person
s.sch003
Payment of the levy
Regulated
- Pay milk levy and report milk purchases or production to AHDBAny Person
s.sch003
Levy on cattle, sheep and pigs
Regulated
- Pay levy on cattle, sheep and pigs slaughtered or exported and hold producer levy on trust for AHDBOccupier
s.sch003
Returns by a slaughterhouse occupier
Regulated
- Notify AHDB of slaughter numbers weekly or monthly if registered as small operatorOccupier
s.sch003
Payment of the levy by slaughterhouse occupiers
Regulated
- Pay slaughterhouse levy within 30 days of invoiceOccupier
s.sch003
Returns and payment of the levy by exporters
Regulated
- Report livestock exports and pay the levy within 30 daysTrader
s.sch003
Enforcement
Prosecution
- Obstruct levy inspector or fail to produce recordsOccupier
Unlimited fine
s.sch003
Levy on cereal and oilseed payable by buyers
Regulated
- Pay levy on cereal and oilseed bought from UK growersAny Person
63 other schedules
s.sch001
Promoting or undertaking scientific research.
s.sch001
Promoting or undertaking research for improving arrangements for marketing and...
s.sch001
Promoting or undertaking research into matters relating to the consumption...
s.sch001
Promoting arrangements— (a) for co-operative organisations, (b) for supplying materials...
s.sch001
Promoting the development of export trade, including promoting or undertaking...
s.sch001
Promoting or undertaking arrangements for better acquainting the public in...
s.sch001
Promoting or undertaking the collection and formulation of statistics.
s.sch001
Advising on any matters relating to the industry (other than...
s.sch001
Undertaking arrangements for making available information obtained, and for advising,...
s.sch001
Engaging in any form of collaboration or co-operation with other...
s.sch001
Promoting or undertaking research into the incidence, prevention and cure...
s.sch001
(1) Promoting or undertaking inquiry— (a) as to materials and...
s.sch001
Promoting or undertaking arrangements for encouraging the entry of persons...
s.sch001
Collecting, managing and making available information regarding the identification, movement...
s.sch001
Allocating unique identification codes to the means of identifying animals...
s.sch001
Promoting the production and marketing of standard products.
s.sch001
Promoting the better definition of trade descriptions and consistency in...
s.sch001
Developing, promoting, marketing or operating— (a) standards relating to the...
s.sch001
Developing, reviewing or operating schemes for the certification of products...
s.sch001
Undertaking the certification of products, the registration of certification trade...
s.sch001
Providing or promoting the provision of— (a) training for persons...
s.sch001
(1) Promoting— (a) the adoption of measures for securing safer...
s.sch002
Procedure
s.sch002
Members' terms of office and removal from office
s.sch002
Voting etc.
s.sch002
Remuneration and allowances
s.sch002
Employees
s.sch003
Subsidiary companies
s.sch003
Levy on cereal payable by a processor
s.sch003
Maximum rate of levy
s.sch003
Weekly returns
s.sch003
Levy on horticultural products
s.sch003
Levy on mushroom spawn
s.sch003
Returns
s.sch003
Information notices
s.sch003
Maximum levy for horticultural products
s.sch003
Maximum levy for mushrooms
s.sch003
Partnerships
s.sch003
Payment
s.sch003
Levies on milk
s.sch003
Levy on potato growers
s.sch003
Levy on buyers of potatoes
s.sch003
Returns by growers
s.sch003
Returns by buyers
s.sch003
Exceptions
s.sch004
Transfer of undertakings
s.sch004
Prosecutions
s.sch004
Transfer or property, rights and undertakings
s.sch004
Existing agreements
s.sch004
Use of surplus
s.sch004
Pension schemes
s.sch004
Contracts of employment
s.sch004
Objection to transfer
s.sch004
Collective agreements
s.sch004
Legal proceedings and the payment of levy
s.sch005
Consequential amendments
s.sch005
In Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the House of...
s.sch005
In Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland...
s.sch005
. . . . . . . . . ....
s.sch005
In Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of...
s.sch005
Transitional rates of levy on cereal
s.sch005
Repeals and revocations
s.sch005
The following are revoked to the extent specified. Instrument revoked...
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