Corn Sales Act 1921

1921 c.35

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]C1 C2 C3

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

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

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

Certain 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.

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F72 Amendment of Corn Returns Act, 1882.

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

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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 F427.215 542 2 kilogramsof wheat, F422.679 618 5 kilogramsof barley, or F417.690 102 43 kilogramsof oats, as the case may be.

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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 F5kilogramsought, 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 F5kilograms so certified.

6 Interpretation.

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.