12 Payments into and out of Agricultural Marketing Funds, and abolition of Marketing Facilities Committees.
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If the Minister considers that the sums standing to the credit of the Agricultural Marketing Fund should be reduced, he may pay such sums as he thinks fit out of that Fund into the Consolidated Fund; and if the Secretary of State considers that the sums standing to the credit of the Agricultural Marketing (Scotland) Fund should be reduced, he may pay such sums as he thinks fit out of that Fund into the Consolidated Fund:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be construed as conferring authority on the Minister or Secretary of State to wind up the Agricultural Marketing Fund or, as the case may be, the Agricultural Marketing (Scotland) Fund.
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The limits imposed by subsection (3) of section 22 of the M1Agricultural Marketing Act 1958 on the sums which may be paid put of money provided by Parliiament into the Marketing Funds mentioned in the preceding subsection are hereby abolished; and accordingly for paragraphs (a) and (b) of the said subsection (3) (which provide that sums payable out of money so provided into each of those funds shall not in the aggregate exceed the difference between £500,000 in the case of the English Fund and £125,000 in the case of the Scottish fund and the sums paid into the fund in question under section 11(2) of the M2Agricultural Marketing Act 1931) there shall be substituted the words “into the English fund and the Scottish fund repectively such sums”.
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Section 23 of the M3Agricultural Marketing Act 1958 (which provides for the appointment of Agricultural Marketing Facilities Committees for England and Wales, for Scotland and for Great Britain) shall cease to have effect; and accordingly—
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