Change-over from scheme under Part II to agricultural marketing service schemeN.I.
32.—(1) A board administering an agricultural marketing scheme under Part II regulating the marketing of an agricultural product may at any time prepare and submit to the Department an agricultural marketing service scheme for the marketing of that product.
(2) The Department, after consultation with the board administering the agricultural marketing scheme 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 prepared under paragraph (1) shall provide—
(a)for the continuation in existence as constituted under the scheme of the board which administered the agricultural marketing scheme;
(b)that a person who immediately before the date on which the scheme comes into force is registered as a producer under the agricultural marketing scheme shall on that date be enrolled as a producer under the scheme;
(c)for such other transitional provisions as appear to the board preparing the scheme to be necessary or desirable in the circumstances.
(5) A scheme approved by an order under paragraph (3) shall come into force in such date as may be specified in the order.