The British Wool Marketing Scheme (Approval) Order 1950

REGIONAL COMMITTEES

34.  There shall be for each Region, a Committee (to be called a Regional Committee) whose duty it shall be to report to the Board from time to time on the operation of the Scheme in that region, and when consulted by the Board with respect to any proposal of the Board, to advise them as to the desirability of the proposal, in so far as it concerns producers in that region.

35.  The Regional Committee for each region shall consist of (a) the regional member of the Board for the time being for the region, or, during the period of office of the first Board, such member of that Board as the Board may appoint, and (b) one representative of each of the counties in the region, except that there shall be three representatives for each of the counties of Devon and Cornwall and two representatives for each of the counties specified in the Second Schedule of this Scheme. Such representatives (hereinafter called “county representatives” ) shall be registered producers in the county they represent, and shall be elected by the registered producers in that county.

36.—(1)  An election of county representatives to the Regional Committee for each region shall be held on such day in the year 1950 as the Board may fix and in each third calendar year thereafter on such day as the Board may fix.

(2)  The provisions of paragraphs 43 to 46 of this Scheme shall govern elections of county representatives to the Regional Committees.

37.  A county representative shall cease to hold office:—

(a) if he is appointed by the Board to any place of profit under this Scheme; or

(b) if he is adjudged bankrupt or compounds with his creditors; or

(c) if he becomes of unsound mind; or

(d) if he is convicted of any offence under sub-section (2) of Section 17 of the Act of 1931; or

(e) if the Regional Committee by resolution declare that he has been absent from six consecutive meetings of the Committee without reasonable excuse; or

(f) if he delivers to the Secretary of the Regional Committee a written resignation of his office and the resignation is accepted by the Committee, or if not so accepted, is not withdrawn within seven days.

38.  If a county representative dies or ceases to hold office under the preceding paragraph, the Regional Committee shall co-opt in his place a registered producer in the same county who shall hold office for so long as his predecessor would have held office.

39.  The quorum of any Regional Committee shall be such as the Committee may fix from time to time, but shall not be less than three.

40.  Minutes shall be kept of the proceedings of each Regional Committee, and any such minutes shall, if signed by a person purporting to have acted as chairman of the meeting to which they relate or of a meeting at which they were read, be evidence of those proceedings, and the meeting to which any such minutes relate shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to have been regularly convened and constituted. A written report of the proceedings at every meeting of a Regional Committee shall be sent to the Board within fourteen days after the meeting.

41.  The Chairman of a Regional Committee shall be appointed by the Committee from among their own number. In his absence from a meeting, the Committee shall appoint another Chairman from their own number to preside at the meeting.

42.  The Board shall appoint a Secretary for each Regional Committee, and the Secretary shall convene a meeting of the Regional Committee whenever so required by the Chairman of the Board or of the Regional Committee.