The Milk Development Council Order 1995

Register of producers

6.—(1) The Council shall, in accordance with the following provisions of this article, maintain a register of producers, referred to in those provisions as “the register”.

(2) The Council shall acquire such information as it is reasonably practicable for them to acquire in order to enter on the register the name and address of each person who is a producer at the time of coming into force of this Order, and shall enter on the register the names and addresses of those whose identity as producers at that time has been ascertained by the Council in acquiring that information.

(3) Within thirty days after making any entry pursuant to paragraph (2) above in respect of any person, the Council shall give written notice to that person of the fact that they have done so and of details of the entry.

(4) The Council shall also enter on the register the name and address of every person who applies to the Council in writing, on the grounds that he is a producer, to have his name and address entered thereon.

(5) The Council may enter on the register, in addition to the name and address of any registered person, any business name under which and the address of any place at which he carries on the business in the industry, and the names of his partners in any such business, but no other information.

(6) Any registered person who becomes aware of any matter rendering the entry on the register relating to him inaccurate or incomplete shall give written notice to the Council of that matter within thirty days of his becoming aware of it.

(7) The Council shall amend the register in accordance with any such notification as is referred to in paragraph (6) above, on its receipt.

(8) Any registered person may apply in writing to the Council for the removal of his name from the register and if the Council are satisfied that such person is not a producer they shall remove his name forthwith.

(9) The Council may, if they have reasonable cause to believe that any registered person is not a producer, by notice in writing inform that person of their intention to remove his name from the register unless within thirty days from the date of the notice he gives notice in writing to the Council that he is a producer and, if no such notice is received by the Council within that period, the Council may on the expiration of that period remove his entry from the register.

(10) The register shall be kept at the office of the Council and any person shall, on the payment of a fee not exceeding one pound, be entitled to inspect the register during normal business hours and to take, or be supplied with, a copy of the entries relating to any one registered person.

(11) In this article “registered person” means a person whose entry is for the time being on the register.