The British Wool Marketing Scheme (Amendment) Order 1958

2.  The British Wool Marketing Scheme, 1950, shall be amended as follows:—

(a) immediately after sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 33 there shall be inserted the following paragraph, that is to say—

“33A.— (1) The Board shall set up and appoint an advisory committee (to be known as the Agents Negotiating Committee) which shall consist of members nominated by such organisations as appear to the Board to represent the interests of agents (one such member being nominated by each such organisation) and a like number of members nominated by the Board (at least one such member being also a member of the Board).

(2) The Chairman of the Agents Negotiating Committee shall be a member of the Board who is also a member of that Committee and shall be appointed by the Board.

(3) (a) The Board shall, before entering into any contract to which this sub-paragraph applies, consult the Agents Negotiating Committee on the amount of the remuneration to be paid by the Board under the contract and on such other terms of the contract as may be specified by the Board and any of the organisations mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph.

(b) This sub-paragraph applies to all contracts the amount of the remuneration under which the Board and any of the said organisations propose should be the subject of negotiations between them, being contracts to be entered into from time to time by the Board with other persons for the appointment of the latter as agents of the Board for the collection of wool from registered producers and the handling of it.

(4) If the Agents Negotiating Committee fail to reach a unanimous decision on the amount of the remuneration to be paid under any such contract as aforesaid, the Committee shall, if so requested by the Board or by any organisation whose nominee is a member of the Committee, consult in connection therewith such person as may be unanimously agreed on by the Agents Negotiating Committee or, in default of agreement, nominated by the Minister.

(5) Where a contract for the appointment of an agent as aforesaid is not one to which sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph applies, the Board may, nevertheless, if they think fit, consult the Agents Negotiating Committee on any of its terms.

(6) In this paragraph the word “agents” means persons who undertake to collect wool from producers, to weigh, grade, value, pack, store and deliver wool, or to perform any of those functions.”;

(b) Sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 33 shall be renumbered 33B.