Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935

Determination of questions by the Pigs Marketing Board.

134.—(1) Save as is otherwise provided by this section, every question arising at a meeting of the Board shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on the question, and in the case of an equal division of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

(2) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the making of a price order, a freight allowance order, a buying allowance order, or an order amending a price order, a freight allowance order or a buying allowance order, at a meeting of the Board, that is to say:—

(a) if no ordinary members or only one ordinary member are or is present at such meeting the Chairman shall make such order and such order as so made by the Chairman shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to have been duly made by the Board at such meeting;

(b) if two or more ordinary members are present at such meeting, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(i) in case all such ordinary members pass unanimously a resolution in favour of the making of such order in terms specified in such resolution, such order shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to have been duly made in such terms by the Board at such meeting, and

(ii) in any other case, the Chairman shall make such order, and such order as so made by the Chairman shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to have been duly made by the Board at such meeting.