Returns and payment of the levy
- Notify AHDB of cereal or oilseed purchases and pay the levy Any Person
UK Statutory Instrument
2008
United Kingdom
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Order 2008
This Order dissolves—the British Potato Council;the Home-Grown Cereals Authority;the Horticultural Development Council;the Meat and Livestock Commission;the Milk Development Council.
At a glance
Enforced by
What's here
7 compliance obligations
Penalty landscape
1 of 7 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 6 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Who this Act binds
Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.
- Any Person 3
- Occupier 3
- Trader 1
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Any Person also bound by 2338 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Human Medicines Regulations 2012 2012 169 duties
- Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1995 144 duties
- Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 2016 101 duties
- Road Traffic Act 1988 1988 95 duties
- Air Navigation Order 2016 2016 95 duties
Occupiers also bound by 259 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 2021 39 duties
- Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No. 2) Order 2006 2006 34 duties
- The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 1995 34 duties
- Highways Act 1980 1980 23 duties
- Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015 2015 18 duties
Traders also bound by 826 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 1995 413 duties
- Companies Act 2006 2006 243 duties
- The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 2008 114 duties
- Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 2016 62 duties
- Building Societies Act 1986 1986 56 duties
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Schedules
Payment of the levy
- Pay milk levy and report milk purchases or production to AHDB Any Person
Levy on cattle, sheep and pigs
- Pay levy on cattle, sheep and pigs slaughtered or exported and hold producer levy on trust for AHDB Occupier
Returns by a slaughterhouse occupier
- Notify AHDB of slaughter numbers weekly or monthly if registered as small operator Occupier
Returns and payment of the levy by exporters
- Report livestock exports and pay the levy within 30 days Trader
Enforcement
Unlimited fine- Obstruct levy inspector or fail to produce records Occupier
Levy on cereal and oilseed payable by buyers
- Pay levy on cereal and oilseed bought from UK growers Any Person
Browse 64 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
Promoting or undertaking scientific research.
Promoting or undertaking research for improving arrangements for marketing and...
Promoting or undertaking research into matters relating to the consumption...
Promoting arrangements— (a) for co-operative organisations, (b) for supplying materials...
Promoting the development of export trade, including promoting or undertaking...
Promoting or undertaking arrangements for better acquainting the public in...
Promoting or undertaking the collection and formulation of statistics.
Advising on any matters relating to the industry (other than...
Undertaking arrangements for making available information obtained, and for advising,...
Engaging in any form of collaboration or co-operation with other...
Promoting or undertaking research into the incidence, prevention and cure...
(1) Promoting or undertaking inquiry— (a) as to materials and...
Promoting or undertaking arrangements for encouraging the entry of persons...
Collecting, managing and making available information regarding the identification, movement...
Allocating unique identification codes to the means of identifying animals...
Promoting the production and marketing of standard products.
Promoting the better definition of trade descriptions and consistency in...
Developing, promoting, marketing or operating— (a) standards relating to the...
Developing, reviewing or operating schemes for the certification of products...
Undertaking the certification of products, the registration of certification trade...
Providing or promoting the provision of— (a) training for persons...
(1) Promoting— (a) the adoption of measures for securing safer...
Procedure
Members' terms of office and removal from office
Voting etc.
Remuneration and allowances
Employees
Subsidiary companies
Levy on cereal payable by a processor
Maximum rate of levy
Weekly returns
Levy on horticultural products
Levy on mushroom spawn
Returns
Information notices
Maximum levy for horticultural products
Maximum levy for mushrooms
Partnerships
Payment
Levies on milk
Levy on potato growers
Levy on buyers of potatoes
Returns by growers
Returns by buyers
Exceptions
Payment of the levy by slaughterhouse occupiers
Transfer of undertakings
Prosecutions
Transfer or property, rights and undertakings
Existing agreements
Use of surplus
Pension schemes
Contracts of employment
Objection to transfer
Collective agreements
Legal proceedings and the payment of levy
Consequential amendments
In Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the House of...
In Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland...
. . . . . . . . . ....
In Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of...
Transitional rates of levy on cereal
Repeals and revocations
The following are revoked to the extent specified. Instrument revoked...
Browse 18 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Title, commencement and extent
Scope
Establishment of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
Constitution etc. of the Board
Acting through subsidiaries
Levies
Estimates
Charges for services
Reserve funds etc.
Incidental Powers
Ballots
Who can vote
Report and accounts
Provision of information by the Board
Provision of information to the Board
Penalties and proceedings
Dissolution of existing bodies
Repeals, etc.
Enforcement and responsible bodies
The regulators that administer or enforce this legislation.
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
Statutory levy board funded by farmers, growers, and others in the agriculture and horticulture supply chain. Collects levies on livestock, cereals, oilseeds, …
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