Dairy Produce Marketing Act, 1961

Constitution of the Board.

8.—(1) The Board shall consist of nine members of whom one shall be the chairman and the others shall be ordinary members.

(2) The members of the Board shall comprise—

(a) three persons nominated under section 9 of this Act to be members of the Board,

(b) one person nominated under section 10 of this Act to be a member of the Board,

(c) one person being—

(i) a person who is nominated to be a member of the Board by the licensed manufacturers of cheese and as respects whose nomination notification in writing is delivered to the Minister (together with a statement in writing signed by the person signifying his consent to the nomination) before the nomination day in the nomination year in which the nomination is made, or

(ii) if in any nomination year the licensed manufacturers of cheese do not, before the nomination day in that year, nominate a person and deliver to the Minister the notification and statement in relation to the person referred to in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, a person nominated by the Minister whom the Minister considers to be representative of those manufacturers,

(d) one person being—

(i) a person who is nominated to be a member of the Board by the licensed manufacturers of milk powder and as respects whose nomination notification in writing is delivered to the Minister (together with a statement in writing signed by the person signifying his consent to the nomination) before the nomination day in the nomination year in which the nomination is made, or

(ii) if in any nomination year the licensed manufacturers of milk powder do not, before the nomination day in that year, nominate a person and deliver to the Minister the notification and statement in relation to the person referred to in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, a person nominated by the Minister whom the Minister considers to be representative of those manufacturers,

(e) one person being—

(i) a person who is nominated to be a member of the Board by the licensed manufacturers of chocolate crumb and as respects whose nomination notification in writing is delivered to the Minister (together with a statement in writing signed by the person signifying his consent to the nomination) before the nomination day in the nomination year in which the nomination is made, or

(ii) if in any nomination year the licensed manufacturers of chocolate crumb do not, before the nomination day in that year, nominate a person and deliver to the Minister the notification and statement in relation to the person referred to in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, a person nominated by the Minister whom the Minister considers to be representative of those manufacturers,

(f) one person nominated by the Minister whom the Minister considers to be representative of the Company, and

(g) one officer of the Minister nominated by the Minister.

(3) The first members of the Board shall be nominated before the establishment day.

(4) In each nomination year after the nomination year in which the establishment day falls the members of the Board shall be nominated before the 1st day of October in that year.

(5) In this section “the licensed manufacturers” means, when used in relation to cheese, milk powder or chocolate crumb, all persons carrying on the manufacture of cheese, milk powder or chocolate crumb, as the case may be, in premises acquired, established or maintained under and in accordance with licences granted under the Creamery Act, 1928 , to those persons or their predecessors in title.