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Corn Sales Act 1921

1921 CHAPTER 35 11 and 12 Geo 5

An Act to provide for the greater uniformity in the weights and measures used in the sale of corn and other crops, to amend the Corn Returns Act, 1882, and for purposes connected therewith.

[17th August 1921]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

C2A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate

C3Certain functions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food transferred by S.I. 1978/272, art. 2

Act: Functions of a Minister of the Crown transferred to the National Assembly for Wales (W.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1

1 Sale of corn to be by weight.U.K.

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F22 Amendment of Corn Returns Act, 1882.U.K.

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5 Adaptation of Acts and awards providing for payment based on price of imperial bushels or other measures.U.K.

(1)Where under the provisions of any Act or award or other instrument any payments are to be calculated on the price or value of an imperial bushel of wheat, barley, or oats, those provisions shall have effect as if the payment were to be calculated on the price or value of [F527.215 542 2 kilograms]of wheat, [F522.679 618 5 kilograms]of barley, or [F517.690 102 43 kilograms]of oats, as the case may be.

(2)Where under the provisions of any Act or award or other instrument any payments are to be calculated on the price or value of any measure of wheat, barley, or oats other than the imperial bushel, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, or, as regards Scotland, the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, may certify what number of [F6kilograms]ought, having regard to the foregoing provisions of this section, to be substituted for that other measure, and thereupon those provisions shall have effect as if the payment were to be calculated on the price or value of the number of [F6kilograms] so certified.

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F5Words substituted by S.I. 1979/357, reg. 2(a)

F6Words substituted by S.I. 1979/357, reg. 2(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C4Style and title of Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries now changed to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200)

C5Functions of Board of Agriculture for Scotland now exercisable by Secretary of State: Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 1 and Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1

S. 5(2): Functions of the Secretary of State, the Secretary fo State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Wales transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, arts. 2(1)(5), 3, Sch.

6 Interpretation.U.K.

In this Act the expression “corn” shall, where the context permits, include wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize and the meal and bran derived therefrom, and any mixture thereof, and this Act shall apply to dried peas, dried beans, linseed and potatoes, and to the seed of grass, clover, vetches, swedes, field turnips, rape, field cabbages, field kale, field kohl-rabi, mangels, beet and sugarbeet, flax, and sainfoin in like manner as it applies to corn.

7 †Short title and commencement.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Corn Sales Act, 1921.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7

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