Article 6 Amendment of the principal Order

There shall be substituted for article 7 (registration of growers) the following article—

“7

(1)

Every person who was registered as a grower under the Apple and Pear Research Council Order 1989 immediately before the dissolution of the Apple and Pear Research Council shall be registered as a grower in the register kept by the Horticultural Development Council.

(2)

Every person who on or after 1st April 2003 becomes a grower shall apply in writing to the Council to be registered within two months of the day on which he became a grower.

(3)

Where two or more persons jointly carry on business in the industry they shall, for the purpose of registration, be treated as constituting a single person.”^f1.