(1)The Ministry, after compliance with the provisions of Part I of Schedule 1, may make an order approving the scheme as framed or with such modifications, if any, as may be made under the said provisions.
(2)Every scheme approved by an order made by the Ministry under subsection (1)—
(a)shall be subject to negative resolution;
(b)shall in any event cease to have effect upon the expiration of a period of two years from the date upon which it came into force, unless at some time before the expiration of that period it has been approved by a resolution passed by each House of Parliament.
(3)Subject to the foregoing provisions, a scheme shall come into force upon the date specified in that behalf in the order approving the scheme; and the making of the order shall be conclusive evidence that the requirements of this Act have been complied with and that the order and the scheme approved thereby have been duly made and approved and are within the powers conferred by this Act.
(4)Without prejudice to section 17(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 [1954 c.33] , the Ministry may at any time, after the like consultation as is required by section 1(2), by order, amend or revoke a scheme approved under this section but shall not revoke a scheme as respects any agricultural product to which section 1(1)( b) applies, in so far as the scheme sub-serves any purposes of an order regulating sales of that agricultural product and made under Part III of the United Kingdom Act, nor so amend the scheme that it will cease to sub-serve any such purposes.
(5)The provisions contained in Part II of Schedule 1 shall apply with respect to the revocation and cesser of schemes.
(6)As soon as possible after making an order approving, amending or revoking a scheme, the Ministry shall cause the order or notice of the making of the order to be published in the Belfast Gazette and in such other manner as the Ministry thinks best for informing persons affected.