Pigs and Bacon Act, 1937

Elections of curer members of the Pigs Marketing Board and nominations of producer members of the said Board to be held and made biennially in lieu of triennially.

43.—(1) So much of Part IV of the Principal Act as, provides for the holding of triennial elections of curer members of the Board shall cease to have effect and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that biennial elections of curer members shall be held and the first of such biennial elections shall be held in the year 1939.

(2) So much of Part IV of the Principal Act as provides for the triennial nomination by the Minister of producer members of the Board shall cease to have effect and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that the Minister shall nominate producer members biennially and the first of such biennial nominations shall be made in the year 1939.

(3) For the purpose of giving full effect to sub-sections (1) and (2) of this section the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) section 120 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of the words “triennial meeting” wherever those words occur in the said section, and the substitution in each case of the words “biennial meeting” for the words so deleted;

(b) section 123 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion in paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of the words “three years” and the substitution of the words “two years” for the words so deleted.