27 .F1—(1) The Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland shall, within the period of one year beginning with the date on which this Order is made, prepare and submit to the Department a milk marketing scheme.
(2) The Department, after consultation with the Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland and with representatives of any other interests appearing to the Department to be directly affected by the scheme, may make such modifications in a scheme submitted under paragraph (1) as it thinks proper.
(3) The Department shall make an order approving the scheme submitted to it under paragraph (1) (or that scheme as modified under paragraph (2), as the case may be).
(4) A scheme under this Article shall provide—
(a)that the Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland shall continue in existence as constituted under the scheme;
(b)that a person who immediately before the date on which the scheme comes into force is registered as a producer under the Milk Marketing Scheme (Northern Ireland) 1955F2 shall on that date be registered as a producer under the scheme;
(c)for such other transitional provisions as appear to the Board or the Department (as the case may be) to be necessary or expedient in the circumstances.
(5) A scheme approved by an order under paragraph (3)—
(a)shall come into force on such date as may be specified in the order;
(b)shall, for the purposes of this Part, be treated as a substitutional scheme;
(c)shall, for the purposes of this Part, have effect as if approved by an order under Article 4(6) and as if all the requirements of Articles 3 and 4(1) to (7) had been duly complied with.
(6) If the Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland does not comply with paragraph (1) within the period mentioned in that paragraph, the Department may by order revoke the Milk Marketing Scheme (Northern Ireland) 1955.
(7) In this Article—
“the Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland” means the Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland constituted under the Milk Marketing Scheme (Northern Ireland) 1955;
“milk marketing scheme” means a scheme for regulating the marketing of cows' milk.
F1mod. by 1984 NI 12, SR 1995/103
F2SR & O (NI) 1955 No. 43