The Food Industry Development Scheme (Specification of Activities) Order 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/2674
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Title and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Food Industry Development Scheme (Specification of Activities) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st December 1997.

Section 2 Activities specified for the purposes of section 50(2) of the Agriculture Act 1993 in relation to the Food Industry Development Scheme

(1) The following activities are hereby specified for the purposes of section 50(2) of the Agriculture Act 1993 as activities covered by paragraph 4(1)(c) of the Food Industry Development Scheme 1997 —

(a) the shooting and harvesting in the wild of game;

(b) the repeated harvesting above ground level at intervals of less than ten years of short rotation coppice; and

(c) the catching of fish.

(2) In paragraph (1) of this article—

(a) “game” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Poaching Prevention Act 1862 ;

(b) “short rotation coppice” means a perennial crop of tree species which has been planted at high density; and

(c) “fish” includes shellfish as defined in section 50(9) of the Agriculture Act 1993.

Section 3 Amendment of the Marketing Development Scheme (Specification of Activities) Order 1994

The Marketing Development Scheme (Specification of Activities) Order 1994 shall be amended as follows—

In paragraph 2(1) after the words “section 50(2) of the Agriculture Act 1993” there shall be added the words “as activities covered by paragraph 2(b) of the Marketing Development Scheme 1994. ”.