Sea Fish Industry Act 1938

11 Performance of services by boards administering marketing schemes

A marketing scheme may provide for enabling the board—

(a) to conduct, and to promote or encourage by financial assistance or otherwise, research and experiments in matters relating to the production, treatment or distribution of white fish;

(b) to take measures for increasing the consumption of white fish, whether by means of advertising or the giving of demonstrations and instruction with respect to the use thereof, or otherwise;

(c) to collect, and to communicate to persons registered under the scheme, statistics and other information the knowledge of which appears to the board to be likely to promote efficiency in the carrying on of the business in respect of which such persons are so registered;

(d) to purchase on behalf of, or to make arrangements for supplying to, persons registered under the scheme any such commodities (other than white fish) as are required for the carrying on by such persons of the business in respect of which they are so registered;

(e) in the case of a producers' marketing scheme—

(i) to take measures for increasing or conserving the stocks of white fish, or any description of white fish, on any fishing ground, whether by transplantation or otherwise; and

(ii) (so far as appears to the board to be desirable with a view to the progressive renewal of the fleet of boats in relation to which licences under the scheme may be necessary) to purchase by agreement any boats in relation to which such licences are in force; and

(f) to co-operate with any other persons in the exercise of any powers conferred on the board by virtue of the preceding provisions of this section.