# The Agricultural Marketing (Northern Ireland) Order 1982, Article 31: Transitional scheme—The Pigs Marketing Board (Northern Ireland)


(1) The Pigs Marketing Board (Northern Ireland) shall, within the period of six months beginning with the date of which this Order is made, prepare and submit to the Department a pigs marketing service scheme.
(2) The Department, after consultation with the Pigs Marketing Board (Northern Ireland) and with representatives of any other interests appearing to the Department to be directly affected by the scheme, may make such modifications in a scheme submitted under paragraph (1) as it thinks proper.
(3) The Department shall make an order approving the scheme submitted to it under paragraph (1) (or that scheme as modified under paragraph (2), as the case may be).
(4) A scheme under this Article shall provide—
(a) that the Pigs Marketing Board (Northern Ireland) shall continue in existence as constituted under the scheme;
(b) that a person who immediately before the date on which the scheme comes into force is registered as a producer under the Pigs Marketing Scheme (Northern Ireland) 1933 and, during the period of 12 months immediately preceding that date, has—
(i) sold pigs to the Pigs Marketing Board (Northern Ireland); and
(ii) not given notice in writing to the Board that he no longer wishes to sell pigs to the Board.
shall on that date be enrolled as producer under the scheme;
(c) for such other transitional provisions as appear to the Board or the Department (as the case may be) to be necessary or expedient in the circumstances.
(5) A scheme approved by an order under paragraph (3) shall come into force on such date as may be specified in the order.
(6) If the Pigs Marketing Board (Northern Ireland) does not comply with paragraph (1) within the period mentioned in that paragraph, the Department may by order revoke the Pigs Marketing Scheme (Northern Ireland) 1933.
(7) In this Article—
“the Pigs Marketing Board (Northern Ireland)” means the Pigs Marketing Board (Northern Ireland) constituted under the Pigs Marketing Scheme (Northern Ireland) 1933;
“pigs marketing service scheme” means a scheme for the marketing of pigs.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1982/1080/article/31 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-marketing-northern-ireland-order-1982/article-31
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