The Agricultural Marketing (Northern Ireland) Order 1982

Powers of boards N.I.

37.—(1) A scheme may provide—

(a) for empowering the board to buy the specified product or goods wholly or partly manufactured or derived from that product, to produce goods wholly or partly manufactured or derived from that product, and to sell, grade, pack, store, adapt for sale, insure, advertise, promote the sale of and transport the specified product and any goods so bought or produced by the board;

(b) for empowering the board to manufacture or acquire, and to sell or let for hire to enrolled producers and other persons, anything required for the production, grading, packing, storing, adaptation for sale, transport or sale of the specified product;

(c) for empowering the board to render to enrolled producers and other persons, on payment or otherwise, any service which is calculated to promote the more efficient production, grading, packing, storing, adaptation for sale, transport or sale of the specified product or any goods an ingredient of which is derived from that product;

(d) for empowering the board to co-operate with any other person in doing anything which the board is or might be empowered to do so by virtue of any of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph;

(e) for empowering the board to do anything calculated to procure, promote or facilitate the doing by any other person of anything in the doing of which the board is or might be empowered to co-operate by virtue of sub-paragraph (d);

(f) for regulating the manner in which the specified product to be sold to the board or any description or quantity thereof is to be graded by or on behalf of enrolled producers, or the manner in which such specified product or any description or quantity thereof is to be marked, packed, stored, adapted for sale, insured, advertised or transported by or on behalf of enrolled producers;

(g) without prejudice to any functions of the Department under section 5 of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949, for enabling the board to encourage, promote or conduct agricultural co-operation, research and education;

(h) for empowering the board to acquire, hold and dispose of securities in, and arrange for the formation of, a body corporate one of whose objects is to do anything which the board is or might be empowered to do by virtue of sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c), and for regulating the exercise by the board of any powers exercisable by it in relation to the appointment of directors of any such body corporate;

(i) for empowering the board to do such other things as appear to the board to be complementary or supplementary to anything which the board is or might be empowered to do so by virtue of any of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph.

(2) A provision included in a scheme by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) shall be so framed as to secure that, in any period of two years, at least one half of the specified product bought by the board is bought from enrolled producers.