Part IMilk Marketing

Schemes of reorganisation

2Applications for approval

1

A milk marketing board may, at any time before 1st January 1994, apply to the appropriate authority for approval of a scheme for the reorganisation of the arrangements relating to the marketing of milk in its area (“scheme of reorganisation”).

2

An application under this section shall include—

a

a copy of the scheme to which the application relates,

b

a statement of the applicant’s reasons for believing that the scheme is one which ought to be approved,

c

a statement, in relation to each successor body proposed to be engaged in milk trading, of the practices proposed to be adopted by it with respect to such trading, and

d

a statement of the applicant’s reasons for believing that those practices satisfy section 3(2)(a)(iii) below.

3

Subject to subsection (4) below, an application under this section may be amended or withdrawn at any time before the appropriate authority has finally determined it.

4

An application under this section may not be amended at any time after the authority has given the board notice under section 4(2) or (3) below.

5

Where a board has made an application under this section, it may not make a further such application until the previous application has been finally determined or withdrawn.

6

No application under this section may be made by a board which has obtained approval of a scheme of reorganisation under this Part of this Act.

7

The appropriate authority may by order extend the period for making applications under this section.

8

In subsection (2)(c) above, “successor body” means a body to which property, rights or liabilities of a milk marketing board are, under the scheme to which the application relates, proposed to be transferred under section 11 below.