Dairy Produce Marketing Act, 1961

Nomination of person as member of the Board by suppliers of milk to creameries owned by University College, Cork, the Dairy Disposal Company, Limited, or its associated companies.

10.—(1) During the period of one month ending immediately before the nomination day in any nomination year suppliers of milk to creameries or cream-separating stations of which the registered proprietors are University College, Cork, the Company, the Condensed Milk Company of Ireland (1928), Limited, or the Newmarket Dairy Company (1932), Limited, may, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, propose persons for nomination as members of the Board, but a person shall not propose more than one person under this subsection in any nomination year.

(2) A proposal in any nomination year under subsection (1) of this section shall be made in writing by any twenty persons each of whom supplied milk during the month ending immediately before the commencement of the period of one month referred to in the said subsection (1) to any such creamery or cream-separating station and shall be delivered to the returning officer (together with a statement in writing signed by the person proposed signifying his consent to the proposal) during the period of one month ending immediately before the nomination day in that year.

(3) If on the nomination day in any nomination year one person only stands proposed under this section, that person shall be deemed to be nominated as a member of the Board under this section.

(4) If on the nomination day in any nomination year more persons than one stand proposed under this section, a ballot shall be held in which each person entitled under this section to nominate a person in that nomination year for membership of the Board shall be entitled to vote for one of the persons standing proposed as aforesaid, and

(a) in case one person secures more votes than any other person in the ballot, that person shall be deemed to be nominated as a member of the Board under this section, and

(b) in case two or more persons secure the same number of votes in the ballot, the returning officer shall determine by lot which of those persons shall be nominated as a member of the Board, and the person so determined shall be deemed to be nominated a member of the Board under this section.