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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 6

6.(1) A scheme may provide for all or any of the matters set out in the
following paragraphs, that is to say:

(a)for empowering the board to buy the regulated product, to produce such
commodities, the whole or a main ingredient of which is derived from that
product, as may be specified in the scheme and to sell and (subject to
regulations made under subsection (2)) to grade, pack, store, adapt for sale,
insure, advertise, promote the sale of, and transport the regulated product
and any such commodities;

(b)for empowering the board to buy such ingredients other than the
regulated product as may be necessary for the production of the commodities
specified in the scheme;

(c)for empowering the board to enter into agreements with buyers of the
regulated product or their representatives concerning the prices at which and
the terms on which the regulated product shall be sold by the board;

(d)for empowering the board to buy or rent or take on hire, and to sell or let
for hire to registered producers, anything required for the production,
adaptation for sale, or sale of the regulated product;

(e)for empowering the board to buy or rent or take on hire, and to sell or let
for hire to persons other than registered producers anything designed to
promote the sale of the regulated product;

(f)for empowering the board to act jointly with the board administering any
other scheme under this Act, or with a committee of dealers, in determining
any matter mentioned in section 5(2)(c) and to agree to refer any question
which may arise in the course of such joint action to the decision of a joint
body consisting of such members of the boards, or of the board and the
committee of dealers, as the scheme or schemes may provide.

In this paragraph the expression "committee of dealers" means a committee
constituted under regulations made by the Ministry and composed of
representatives of persons carrying on business as dealers in a
regulated product;

(g)for empowering the board to co-operate with any other person in doing
anything which the board are or might be empowered to do by virtue of
paragraph (a), paragraph (b), paragraph (d) or paragraph (e);

(h)without prejudice to any functions of the Ministry under section 5 of the
Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949, for enabling the board to encourage,
promote or conduct agricultural co-operation, research and education;

<[(i)for empowering the board to do anything calculated to procure, promote or facilitate the doing by any other person of anything in the doing of which the board are or might be empowered to co-operate by virtue of paragraph (g).]


(2) For the purposes of any scheme, the Ministry may by regulations prescribe
the persons by whom and the manner in which the regulated product or any
description or quantity thereof is to be graded, and the manner in which the
regulated product or any description or quantity thereof is to be marked,
packed, stored, adapted for sale, insured, advertised or transported or its
sale promoted.

(3) All regulations made under subsection (2) shall cease to have effect if
and when the scheme for the purposes of which the regulations have been made
ceases to have effect.

[(4) Regulations made under subsection (2) may provide that a person who
contravenes the regulations shall be guilty of an offence and liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #200.]

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