The Agricultural Marketing (Northern Ireland) Order 1982

Amendment and revocation of schemesN.I.

34.—(1) An amendment of a scheme may be submitted to the Department by the board.

(2) Before and amendment of a scheme is submitted to the Department under paragraph (1) the amendment shall be published in the prescribed manner to all enrolled producers and if, within the prescribed period after it has been so published, a poll on the question whether it shall be submitted to the Department is demanded by the prescribed number or the prescribed proportion, as the case may be, of the enrolled producers, the amendment shall not be submitted to the Department unless a poll on that question has been taken and the result thereof shows that the requisite majority of enrolled producers had voted in favour of its submission.

(3) In paragraph (2) “prescribed” means prescribed by the scheme.

(4) The Department, after complying with Schedule 4, shall make an order approving the amendment submitted to it under paragraph (1) (or that amendment as modified under that Schedule, as the case may be).

(5) An amendment approved by an order under paragraph (4) shall come into force on such date as may be specified in the order.

(6) A scheme may be revoked in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 5.