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Paragraph 1

(1)

If a demand for a poll on the question whether a scheme shall be revoked is made to the board in the prescribed manner and by the prescribed number or the prescribed proportion, as the case may be, of the enrolled producers, the board shall, subject to sub‐paragraph (2), forthwith cause a poll of the enrolled producers to be taken on that question, and if the result of the poll shows that there have voted in favour of the revocation of the scheme—

(a)

more than half the total number of enrolled producers voting on the poll, and

(b)

such number of enrolled producers as have together, within such period as may be specified by the scheme, sold to the board more than half the quantity of the specified product which the board has bought from enrolled producers voting on the poll within that period

the board shall, as soon as practicable after the declaration of the result of the poll, communicate the result thereof to the Department, and the Department shall thereupon by order revoke the scheme.

(2)

Without the consent of the board, no poll shall be taken under this paragraph within the prescribed period after the date of the declaration of the result of any previous poll taken under this paragraph.

(3)

In this paragraph “prescribed” means prescribed by the scheme.