The Milk Marketing Board (Residuary Functions) Regulations 1994

41.—(1) Registration of the name or style under which two or more persons carry on business in partnership as producers shall operate as the registration of all partners for the time being so however that (a) for the purposes of the provisions of this Scheme which relate to voting at meetings and assessment of contributions from relevant producers all the partners shall be regarded as constituting together a single registered producer or a single relevant producer (as the case may be) and (b) a person registered as a partner as aforesaid shall not be deemed to be registered as a producer except in respect of transactions which form part of the partnership business.

(2) Subject to sub–paragraphs (3) and (4) below, where by reason of a registered producer dying or becoming subject to some legal disability or entering into a composition or 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, the 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.

(3) On the day of the transfer and for three months, or such longer period as the Board may determine, thereafter only, the personal representative, trustee, committee, or other person may do, without being registered under sub–paragraph (4) below, anything for the purposes of this Scheme in relation to the business so transferred which the registered producer might have done.

(4) Registration under this sub–paragraph shall be effected by notification to the Board in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Milk Marketing Board (Residuary Functions) Regulations 1994.