Agriculture Act 1993

2 Applications for approval. E+W+S

(1) A milk marketing board may, at any time before 1st January 1994, apply to the appropriate authority for approval of a scheme for the reorganisation of the arrangements relating to the marketing of milk in its area (“scheme of reorganisation”).

(2) An application under this section shall include—

(a) a copy of the scheme to which the application relates,

(b) a statement of the applicant’s reasons for believing that the scheme is one which ought to be approved,

(c) a statement, in relation to each successor body proposed to be engaged in milk trading, of the practices proposed to be adopted by it with respect to such trading, and

(d) a statement of the applicant’s reasons for believing that those practices satisfy section 3(2)(a)(iii) below.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) below, an application under this section may be amended or withdrawn at any time before the appropriate authority has finally determined it.

(4) An application under this section may not be amended at any time after the authority has given the board notice under section 4(2) or (3) below.

(5) Where a board has made an application under this section, it may not make a further such application until the previous application has been finally determined or withdrawn.

(6) No application under this section may be made by a board which has obtained approval of a scheme of reorganisation under this Part of this Act.

(7) The appropriate authority may by order extend the period for making applications under this section.

(8) In subsection (2)(c) above, “successor body” means a body to which property, rights or liabilities of a milk marketing board are, under the scheme to which the application relates, proposed to be transferred under section 11 below.