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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 7

Miscellaneous provisions of schemes.

7.(1) Every scheme shall provide for the following matters, that is to say:

(a)for exempting from registration under the scheme any producer or groups,
classes or descriptions of producers as may be specified in the scheme;

(b)for exempting from all or any of the provisions of the scheme sales of such
classes or descriptions, and to such classes of persons, as may be specified
in the scheme or in regulations to be made by the Ministry under this Act with
respect to the removal of any agricultural product from Northern Ireland into
Great Britain;

(c)for securing that any producer aggrieved by any act or omission of the
board may refer the matter to one or more than one arbitrator appointed in
such manner as may be provided by the scheme, and for the manner in which any
such reference is to be heard and determined.

(2) A scheme may provide for both or either of the following matters:

(a)for empowering any person authorised in writing by the board (including,
with the approval of the Ministry, any officer of the Ministry) for the
purpose of securing compliance with the scheme to enter [and remain on] and
inspect at any reasonable time, and on production of his authority, any part
of the land or premises occupied by any registered producer (being a producer
specified in the authority) which the person so authorised has reason to
believe is used for producing the regulated product, or for doing any of the
following things which is regulated by the scheme, that is to say, grading,
marking, packing or storing the regulated product, or adapting it for sale
[and to take with him such other persons and such equipment as appear to him
necessary], and for requiring registered producers to permit such entry,
[remaining], and inspection;

(b)for requiring any producer of the regulated product to furnish to the board
his name and address and such information relating to the regulated product as
the board, with the approval of the Ministry, may determine.

(3) A scheme may provide for securing that where, by reason of a registered
producer dying, or becoming subject to some legal disability, or entering into
a composition or scheme of arrangement with his creditors, any property in, or
control of, the regulated product is transferred from the registered producer
to a personal representative, trustee, committee, or other person, the
personal representative, trustee, committee, or other person, as the case may
be, shall, in such circumstances and in respect of such matters as may be
specified in the scheme, be deemed to be a producer.


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