15Power of Ministry to undertake research, and to provide advice, etc.N.I.
(1)The subjects with respect to which the Ministry may, under section 5(4) of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 M1, either itself undertake research or make advances to a person or body undertaking research, shall include matters relating to the processing of horticultural produce.
(2)The Ministry may—
(a)generally, provide for persons carrying on or proposing to carry on a business involving the processing of horticultural produce, or the packing or transporting of processed horticultural produce, advice in relation to any of those matters; and
(b)in particular, in relation to any of the matters referred to in paragraph ( a), with the approval of the Ministry of Finance,—
(i)arrange lectures, classes and displays (including demonstrations of working exhibits and instructional apparatus); and
(ii)make schemes providing for the payment by the Ministry of sums by way of scholarships for the purposes of enabling or assisting persons to secure instruction or to undertake research in any subject or course of subjects specified in the schemes.