Agricultural Marketing Act 1958

27 Functions of Agricultural Marketing Reorganisation Commission for Scotland may be discharged by other bodies

(1) The Secretary of State, in lieu of constituting an Agricultural Marketing Reorganisation Commission for Scotland, may by order provide for the vesting of any powers and duties conferred on Agricultural Marketing Reorganisation Commissions by this Act in an existing organisation formed for the purpose of promoting agricultural co-operation in Scotland, or in the governing body of such an organisation:

Provided that no such order shall be made without the consent of the organisation to which it relates.

(2) An order under this section may direct that all or any of the provisions of this Act relating to Agricultural Marketing Reorganisation Commissions shall apply to the organisation to which the order relates or to the governing body thereof, subject to such modifications as may be prescribed by the order, and may, with the approval of the Treasury, direct that the expenses incurred by the organisation or governing body in carrying out any powers or duties imposed on it by the order shall, in lieu of being met in the manner provided by this Act with regard to the said Commissions, be met out of an annual grant to the organisation or governing body of such amount as may from time to time e determined by the Treasury, and any such grant shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(3) No order under this section shall come into operation until after it has lain before each House of Parliament for a period of twenty days on which that House has sat, and if within that period either House of Parliament by resolution disapproves the order, the order shall be null, without prejudice, however, to the making of a new order.

(4) In this section " governing body", in the case of a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, 1893 to 1954, means the committee of management or other directing body of the society and, in the case of a company registered under the Companies Act, 1948, means the directors.