The Agricultural Marketing (Northern Ireland) Order 1982

Miscellaneous provisions of schemes N.I.

38.—(1) Every scheme shall provide for the manner in which polls are to be taken for the purposes of this Part and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision—

(a) may apply with any necessary modifications any statutory provision (including the penal provisions thereof) relating to parliamentary, Assembly or local government elections and to the prevention of corrupt and illegal practices thereat;

(b) may prescribe the information relating to the specified product which is to be furnished by every enrolled producer before or at the time of voting, and the manner in which the information is to be furnished, and may require the rejection of the vote of any producer who fails to furnish the prescribed information in the prescribed manner, and may impose penalties for furnishing false information;

(c) shall prescribe the manner in which the result of the poll is to be declared and published.

(2) Every scheme shall provide for the calling by the board of annual general and other meetings of enrolled producers and may make provision for the business to be conducted at such meetings.

(3) A scheme may provide—

(a) for securing that where, by reason of an enrolled 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 specified product is transferred from the enrolled producer to a personal representative, trustee, assignee, committee or other person, the personal representative, trustee, assignee, 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 an enrolled producer;

(b) for such other matters as are incidental to or consequential on the provisions of this Part relating to the contents of schemes or are necessary for giving effect to those provisions.