# The Agricultural Marketing (Northern Ireland) Order 1982, Article 26: Poll pursuant to Council Regulations (EEC) No. 1422/78


(1) If not less than 10 producers, not being disqualified producers, comprising at least 1 per cent. of the producers who sell milk to the Milk Marketing Board for Northern Ireland so request, the Board shall cause a poll to be taken in accordance with the relevant polling rules on the question specified in Article 2(2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1422/78 (that is, whether the voter agrees to the Board's carrying on the activities and exercising the rights resulting from the Regulation) except where it is precluded from giving effect to the request by Article 3(2) of that Regulation.
(2) In this Article—
“disqualified producers” means producers who are disqualified from requesting or taking part in a poll on the question referred to in this Article by Article 3 (1) of the Regulation referred to in this Article; and “relevant polling rules” means, in addition to the rules in Article 2 of that Regulation, such rules in the scheme administered by the Board as relate to a poll on the question referred to in this Article.
(3) The Board shall as soon as may be inform the Department of—
(a) any valid request for a poll under this Article, and
(b) the results of any such poll.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1982/1080/article/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-marketing-northern-ireland-order-1982/article-26
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