LIVESTOCK MARKETING COMMISSION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 2 Development of livestock and livestock products industries.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETING COMMISSION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 2

Development of livestock and livestock products industries.

2.(1) The Commission may make recommendations to the Ministry of Agriculture
(in this Act referred to as "the Ministry") for the better organisation of, or
for the development or expansion of, any section of the livestock industry or
the livestock products industry in Northern Ireland.

(2) Where the Ministry receives any recommendations under subsection (1), it
may make a scheme containing provisions for the better organisation of, or for
the development or expansion of any section of, the livestock industry or the
livestock products industry in Northern Ireland, including provisions for

(a)improving the structure of those industries;

(b)disseminating information in relation to the market in and the demand for
livestock and livestock products;

(c)improving the operation and efficiency of livestock auction markets in
Northern Ireland; or

(d)promoting the processing and packaging of meat;

(3) Where a scheme made under subsection (2) confers functions on
the Commission, the Ministry may with the consent of the Ministry of Finance
make to the Commission on such conditions as the Ministry may specify payments
of such amount as the Ministry considers appropriate during the period of
three years beginning with the date upon which the scheme comes into
operation.

(4) The Ministry may recover as a civil debt due to it the whole, or such part
as it may determine, of any payment under subsection (3) which is made subject
to a condition, if the condition is not complied with.

(5) The Ministry shall not incur any expenditure under a scheme made under
subsection (2) which confers functions on the Ministry unless the scheme was
made with the consent of the Ministry of Finance, and where the Ministry
incurs expenditure under a scheme made with that consent, the scheme shall
cease to have effect on the expiration of the period of three years beginning
with the date upon which the scheme came into operation.

(6) The Ministry may direct that any agreement or class of agreements
specified in the direction, being agreements into which the Commission enter
in connection with a scheme made under subsection (2), shall be ones to which
[the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976] does not apply.

(7) All expenses incurred by the Ministry under this section shall be defrayed
out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(8) A scheme made under subsection (2) shall be subject to affirmative
resolution.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETING COMMISSION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 2