The Corn Returns Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1873
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Title, commencement and extent

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Corn Returns Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st August 1997.

(2) These Regulations shall apply to Great Britain.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“ the Act ” means the Corn Returns Act 1882;

“ the Authority ” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority, established by the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 ;

“return” means a return made in pursuance of section 5 of the Act of purchases of British corn.

Section 3 Prescribed areas for making returns

The areas prescribed in accordance with section 4 of the Act (from which areas weekly returns are to be made) shall be those areas listed in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Section 4 Making of returns

(1) Any person required by section 5 of the Act (weekly returns of purchases of British corn) to make a return shall, save where he and the Authority have agreed that he shall do so in some other manner, either—

(a) do so in writing, and sign it, and then post it by first class post, or

(b) complete it in such a way that it is capable of being easily read after transmission by facsimile machine, and then send it by means of such a machine,

to the Authority on each Friday (or, if that Friday is a public holiday, the next working day) occurring next after a period for which he is required to make a return.

(2) A return shall contain the information specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations, and shall relate to the period of seven days (starting on a Friday) most recently preceding the day on which it is required to be posted or sent to the Authority.

(3) A separate return shall be made for each of the prescribed areas from which the person required to make the return purchased British corn by wholesale from the grower, or if no such purchase was made during the seven-day period in question a return shall be made stating that fact.

Section 5 Revocations

The Corn Returns Regulations 1976 , the Corn Returns (Scotland) Regulations 1976 , the Corn Returns (Scotland) (Variation) Regulations 1990 , and the Corn Returns (Variation) Regulations 1990 are hereby revoked.

Section 1

A return sent to the Authority under the provisions of regulation 4 shall specify the following—

(a) the name of the person making the return;

(b) a contact name (if different from the name given at (a)) and telephone number;

(c) the period of seven days to which the return relates (hereinafter referred to as “the current week”);

(d) the prescribed area (being one of the prescribed areas listed in Schedule 1 to these Regulations) to which the return relates or, in the event that no purchase was made during the current week then attesting to the fact that the return relates to no such prescribed area;

(e) to which sort or sorts of British corn the return relates, i.e. wheat (specifying whether “seed”, “breadmaking”, “other milling” or “feeding and other”), barley (specifying whether “seed”, “malting (premium)”, “malting (other)” or “feeding and other”), oats (specifying whether “seed”, “milling” or “feeding and other”), rye, or maize;

(f) in relation to each sort of British corn specified in the return, details of each contract made for its purchase during the current week, in each case giving both the total quantity (in tonnes) and the aggregate purchase price, and—

(i) where any contract is an ex-farm fixed price contract, further specifying whether it has been agreed that delivery shall take place during—

(aa) the same month as,

(bb) the first, second, or third month following, or

(cc) at any time after the third month following,

the one in which the Thursday of the current week falls;

(ii) where any contract is other than an ex-farm fixed price contract, further specifying the quantity (in tonnes) grown or proposed to be grown in—

(aa) the year immediately preceding the year in which,

(bb) the year during which, and

(cc) the year immediately following the year in which,

the current week falls.

Section 2

For the purposes of this Schedule—

(a) “breadmaking” wheat means wheat fulfilling the following criteria—

(i) being one of the following varieties: Hereward, Mercia, Spark, Avalon, Axona, Avans, Abbot, Malacca;

(ii) having a minimum Hagburg Falling Number of 250;

(iii) having a protein content of at least 11% (at 14% moisture content); and

(iv) having a minimum hectolitre weight of 76 kg ;

(b) “other milling” wheat means wheat intended for milling into flour but not meeting the criteria for breadmaking wheat;

(c) “feeding and other” wheat means wheat intended for feeding to animals, or wheat intended to be used either for distilling or for a use other than as seed or as flour;

(d) “malting (premium)” barley means any variety of barley bought for malting and fulfilling the following criteria—

(i) being one of the following varieties: Halcyon, Pipkin, Puffin, Melanie, Fanfare, Cheviot, Optic, Alexis, Cooper, Delibes, Derkado, Prisma;

(ii) having a minimum germinative capacity of 96%;

(iii) having a minimum nitrogen content (on a dry matter basis) of 1.75%; and

(iv) having a maximum screenings content of either—

(aa) basis 6% through a 2.25 mm sieve, or

(bb) basis 10% through a 2.5 mm sieve;

(e) “malting (other)” barley means barley bought for malting other than malting (premium) barley;

(f) “feeding and other” barley means barley intended for feeding to animals, or barley intended for a use other than as seed or for malting; and

(g) “feeding and other” oats means oats intended for feeding to animals, or oats intended for a use other than as seed or for milling.