The following section shall be inserted in the M1Agricultural Marketing Act 1958 after section 19 :—
“19A(1)The provisions of this section shall have effect where a report made by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission under section 54 of the Fair Trading Act 1973, as laid before Parliament, contains conclusions to the effect—
(a)that certain matters indicated in the report operate, or may be expected to operate, against the public interest, and
(b)that those matters consist of or include any provision of a scheme or any act or omission of a board administering a scheme.
(2)In the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, the Minister shall have the like power to make orders under section 19 of this Act as if those conclusions of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission—
(a)had been to the effect that the provision of the scheme in question, or the act or ommisssion of the board to which those conclusions relate, were contrary to the interest of consumers of the regulated product, and
(b)had been contained in a report of a committee of investigation.”
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C1The text of section 127 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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