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This Order removes burdens on processors of, and those bodies substantially representative of growers of, home-grown sugar beet by repealing, in so far as it extends to England and Wales, section 68 of the Food Act 1984. Section 3 obliges inter alia the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales, after consulting such processors and representative bodies, to prepare an annual programme for the carrying out of research and education in matters affecting the growing of home-grown beet. The sugar beet industry is currently required by means of an agreement with the Ministers to provide the latter with that programme. Section 68 also confers on the Ministers the power to provide, by means of an order, for the collection of contributions from processors and growers in order to carry it into effect.