AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 13 Registration of certain contracts.

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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 13

Registration of certain contracts.

13.(1) It shall be the duty of the board, on the application of any party to
such a contract as is referred to in section 12(1), to register the contract
within the period of fourteen days after the application is made, unless

(a)the application is made after the said section 12(1) has, by virtue of
section 12(2), ceased to apply to the contract; or

(b)as respects a contract made during the relevant period, the board are of
opinion that the contract was made with a view to evading the operation of the
scheme by or under which the performance of the contract is prohibited.

(2) Any party to a contract who is aggrieved by the omission of a board to
register the contract within the period referred to in subsection (1), may,
within twenty-one days after the expiration of that period, appeal to the
court, and, pending the determination of any such appeal, section 12(1) shall,
notwithstanding anything in section 12(2), continue to apply to the contract.

(3) On any appeal under this section, the board concerned and any party to the
contract may appear and be heard, and if, on the hearing of any such appeal,
the court finds

(a)that the application for registration of the contract was made before the
expiration of the period on the expiration of which section 12(1) ceased, by
virtue of section 12(2), to apply to the contract; and

(b)as respects a contract made during the relevant period, that the contract
was not made with a view to evading the operation of the scheme;

(4) Where the court does not by order direct the registration of a contract
made during the relevant period, any party to that contract who is certified
by the court to have entered into the contract in good faith without a view to
evading the operation of the scheme may recover the amount of any damage
suffered by him by reason of the avoidance of the contract from any party
thereto who is certified by the court to have entered into the contract with a
view to evading the operation of the scheme.

(5) For the purposes of an appeal under this section with respect to any
contract, the court shall, subject to subsection (6), be the county court for
any division within which any party to the contract has dwelt or carried on
business at any time during the period within which the appeal may be brought.

(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (5)

(a)if, before proceedings in respect of any appeal under this section are
commenced in the county court, the board and all parties to the contract agree
that the appeal should be heard by the High Court, the High Court shall be the
court for the purposes of the appeal; and

Para.(b) rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.II

(7) For the purposes of this section, the expression "the relevant period", in
relation to a scheme, means a period beginning twelve months before the date
when notice of the framing of the scheme was published by the Ministry and
ending six months after the date when the scheme comes into force.

Directions by Minister to boards as respects certain matters.

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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 13