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Amendment of Second Schedule to Act of 1931.
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42.—(1) The Second Schedule to the Act of 1931 is hereby amended by the substitution for Rule 2 of the following Rule:
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“2. Every committee of agriculture shall be composed both of persons who are and persons who are not members of the council and the number of members of every such committee who are members of the council shall be—
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(a) in case the committee consists of a number of members which is a multiple of five, three-fifths of that number, and
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(b) in any other case, the number which is the next whole number above three-fifths of the number of members.”
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(2) Every person, other than a member of the council of a county, appointed to be a member of a committee of agriculture shall be appointed on the nomination of such voluntary rural organisations active in the county as the Minister may by order designate (either generally or in relation to each county or group of counties) and the number of members to be nominated by each such organisation shall, subject to the provisions of the Agriculture Acts and this Act, be such as the Minister may by order determine.
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(3) This section shall have effect in relation to a committee of agriculture upon the commencement of the annual meeting of the council of the county by which the members of the committee are appointed held next after the first election of members of the council held after the passing of this Act.
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