Article 3(1)
SCHEDULE 1FUNCTIONS OF THE MILK DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
1. Promoting or undertaking scientific research.
2. Promoting or undertaking inquiry as to materials and equipment and as to methods of production, management and labour utilisation, including the discovery and development of new materials, equipment and methods and of improvements in those already in use, the assessment of the advantages of different alternatives, and the conduct of experimental establishments and of tests on a commercial scale.
3. Promoting or undertaking research for improving arrangements for marketing and distributing products.
4. Promoting or undertaking research into matters relating to the consumption or use of goods and services supplied by the industry (including the range of factors affecting that consumption or use).
5. Promoting or undertaking the collection and formulation of statistics.
6. Advising on any matters relating to the industry (other than remuneration or conditions of employment) as to which the Ministers may request the Council to advise, and undertaking inquiry for the purpose of enabling the Council so to advise.
7. Undertaking arrangements for making available information obtained, and for advising, on matters with which the Council are concerned in the exercise of any of their functions.