Pig Production Development Act (Northern Ireland) 1964(repealed)

N.I. SCHEDULE

PART I N.I. CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMITTEE

N.I. Members of the Committee

1 (1) The Committee shall consist of the following members appointed by the Minister—

(a) two persons nominated by the Ulster Farmers' Union;

(b) two persons nominated by the Board;

(c) one person nominated by the National Pig Breeders' Association (Irish Members Advisory Committee);

(d) one person nominated by the Northern Ireland Landrace Pig Breeders' Association;

(e) two persons nominated by the Ministry.

(2) Where any of the bodies (other than the Ministry) mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) ceases to exist or fails, within three months after the occurrence of any vacancy, to nominate a person for appointment to the Committee, the Minister may appoint to fill that vacancy a person who in his opinion is capable of representing the interests which were or are represented by that body.

N.I. Casual Vacancies

2 If a casual vacancy occurs in the membership of the Committee the Minister shall appoint a person nominated by the body by whom the person whom he replaces was nominated.

N.I. Term of Office of Members

3 (1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, the term of office of members of the Committee shall be three years.

(2) A person appointed to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office only for the remainder of the term for which the member whom he replaces was appointed.

(3) A member nominated by the Ministry shall hold office until another person nominated by the Ministry is appointed in his place, or, if an established officer on the staff of the Ministry, until he ceases to be an official of the Ministry, whichever event first occurs.

Sub-para.(4) rep. by SLR 1976

N.I. Disqualification and Resignation

4 (1) Where a member of the Committee is absent from six consecutive meetings of the Committee, the Committee may by resolution declare that member to be disqualified for membership of the Committee and thereupon his office as member of the Committee shall become vacant.

(2) On a member of the Committee—

(a) becoming bankrupt or making a composition with his creditors;

(b) being convicted of an indictable offence;

(c) being detained in any place for more than seven days under any enactment relating to persons of unsound mind and for the time being in force in any part of the United Kingdom;

that member shall thereupon be disqualified for membership of the Committee and his office as member of the Committee shall become vacant.

(3) A member of the Committee may at any time resign from the Committee by letter or notice in writing addressed or given to the Minister.

(4) Where any member of the Committee ceases to be a member of the body by which he was nominated, that body may withdraw his nomination and notify the Minister in writing of the withdrawal, and thereupon that member shall be deemed to have resigned from the Committee.

N.I. Eligibility of Outgoing Members

5 A member of the Committee whose term of office expires by effluxion of time or who has resigned or who is deemed to have resigned shall be eligible for re-nomination and re-appointment.

PART II N.I. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE

N.I. Chairman

1 (1) At the first meeting of the Committee and thereafter at the first meeting next held after the 1st April in each year the Committee shall elect one of their members to be chairman.

(2) The chairman so elected shall continue in that office until a new chairman is elected in accordance with sub-paragraph (1).

(3) An outgoing chairman shall, if he continues to be a member of the Committee, be eligible for re-election.

(4) At a meeting of the Committee—

(a) the chairman shall, if present, be chairman of the meeting;

(b) if and so long as the chairman is not present or if the office of chairman is vacant, the members of the Committee who are present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

N.I. Meetings

2 (1) The quorum for a meeting of the Committee shall be four.

(2) Every question at a meeting of the Committee shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on the question, and in the case of an equal division of votes, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.

N.I. Power to act notwithstanding vacancy

3 The Committee shall have power to act notwithstanding any vacancy in their numbers.

N.I. Attestation of Common Seal

4 The common seal of the Committee shall, when applied to a document, be attested by the signatures of any two members of the Committee authorised by the Committee to act for that purpose.

N.I. Execution of Contracts and Instruments not under Seal

5 Any contract or instrument which, if entered into or executed by an individual, would not require to be[F1 executed as a deed] may be entered into or executed on behalf of the Committee by any person generally or specially authorised by the Committee to act for that purpose.

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N.I. Disclosure of Interests

6 (1) A member of the Committee shall, if he is in any way directly or indirectly interested in any contract made or proposed to be made by the Committee which involves or is likely to involve any payment out of the Development Fund, disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Committee as soon as possible after the relevant circumstances have come to his knowledge.

(2) Any disclosure made by a member under sub-paragraph (1) shall be recorded in the minutes of the Committee and, if the other members of the Committee present at the meeting so decide, that member shall not take part after the disclosure in any deliberation or decision of the Committee with respect to that contract.

(3) Where under sub-paragraph (2) a member is prohibited from taking part in any deliberation or disclosure, that member shall be disregarded for the purpose of constituting a quorum of the Committee for any such deliberation or decision.

N.I. Defect in Appointment

7 No defect in the appointment of any person acting as a member of the Committee shall vitiate any proceedings of the Committee in which he has taken part.