The Aberdeen and District Milk Marketing Board (Residual Functions) Regulations 1994

PART III REGISTRATION OF PRODUCERS

Registration of producers and maintenance of register

14.—(1) The Board shall compile and thereafter maintain a register (in these Regulations referred to as “the register”) of the entry of every person who they have reasonable grounds to believe is an eligible producer or an end year producer, Part I of which shall consist of entries of eligible producers and Part II of which shall consist of entries of end year producers.

(2) Any person whose entry does not appear in the register shall be entitled, on application to the Board and on demonstrating to their reasonable satisfaction that he is an eligible producer or an end year producer (as the case may be), to be entered on the register.

(3) It shall be the duty of every registered producer to notify the Board of any changes to his registered entry.

(4) The Board shall be entitled to assume that information provided to them for the purposes of paragraph (2) or (3) above is correct.

(5) The Board may arrange for the register to be maintained on their behalf by a third party.

(6) In this regulation–

“entry” means name and address.

15.—(1) Section 12(2) of the marketing scheme is preserved, subject to the modification that–

(a) the words “incorporated under the Companies Acts 1948 to 1981” shall be omitted; and

(b) the words “of the regulated product” shall be omitted.

(2) After section 12(2) of the marketing scheme there shall be inserted the following subsection:–

“(2A) Where, by reason of a registered producer dying or becoming subject to some legal disability or entering into a composition or a scheme of arrangement with his creditors, the property in, or the control of, any business of producing milk is transferred from him to a personal representative, trustee, committee or other person, such personal representative, trustee, committee or other person shall, until he has disposed of the property in or control of such business of producing milk, be deemed to be a registered producer for all the purposes of this Scheme and shall apply for registration as such:

• Provided that on the day of the transfer and for three months thereafter the personal representative, trustee, committee, or other person may do, without being registered, anything in relation to the business so transferred which the registered producer might have done.”.

Inspection of register

16.  Section 12(3) and (4) of the marketing scheme is preserved, subject to the modification that–

(a) in subsection (3) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Within one month of Vesting Day the Board shall publish in such manner as they think fit a notice publicising the existence of the register and the place at, the hours during and the days on which it may be inspected.”; and

(b) in subsection (4) for the words “of one pound and fifty pence” there shall be substituted the words “to be determined by the Board which reasonably compensates the Board for the cost of furnishing the information.”.