Article 6 Register of producers and first purchasers

The Council shall, in accordance with the following provisions of this article, establish and maintain a register of persons carrying on business in the industry (“the register”).

The register shall be divided into two parts: one part to contain producers and the other to contain first purchasers.

The Council may acquire such information as it is reasonably practicable for it to acquire in order to enter on the register the name and address of each person who is carrying on business in the industry, who is a producer or first purchaser at the time of coming into force of this Order, and shall enter on the register the names and addresses of those so identified.

Within thirty days after making any entry in the register in respect of any person, the Council shall give written notice to that person of the fact that it has done so and of details of the entry.

The Council shall also enter on the register the name and address of every person who applies to the Council in writing, on the grounds that he is carrying on business in the industry as a producer or first purchaser, to have his name and address entered thereon.

The Council may enter on the register, in addition to the name and address of any registered person, any business name under which and the address of any place at which he carries on business in the industry, and the names of his partners in any such business, but no other information.

Any registered person who becomes aware that the entry on the register relating to him is inaccurate or incomplete shall give written notice to the Council of that fact within thirty days of his becoming aware of it, and the Council, if satisfied that the register is inaccurate or incomplete, shall amend it accordingly.

Any registered person may apply in writing to the Council for the removal of his name from the register and the Council, if satisfied that such person is not carrying on business in the industry, shall remove his name forthwith.

The register shall be kept at the office of the Council and any person shall be entitled to inspect the register during normal business hours and on the payment of reasonable photocopying charges, to take, or be supplied with, a copy of the entries.

In this article “registered person” means a person whose entry is for the time being on the register.