Regulation 15 Registration of producers and maintenance of register

(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.”.