This Order, which comes into operation on the 1st May, 1959, is made under section 19 of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1958, and is consequent on a report made under that section by the Committee of Investigation for Great Britain.
The Order directs the British Wool Marketing Board, in prescribing the notice to be given by registered producers on making application for change of agent to whom they deliver wool, to require that the notice shall be given before the end of October in any year and shall relate to wool delivered on and after the first day of the following May. It also directs the Board to notify the existing agent and the proposed new one of any such application and of any withdrawal except a withdrawal lodged after the end of December in the year in which the application is made.