Pigs and Bacon (Amendment) Act, 1961

Amendment of section 4 of the Act of 1939.

7.—Section 4 of the Act of 1939 is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3), namely:

“(3) (a) The Commission shall consist of seven members, namely a chairman (in this Act referred to as the Chairman) and six ordinary members (in this Act referred to as ordinary members).

(b) The ordinary members shall comprise—

(i) two persons each of whom is—

(I) a person nominated to be an ordinary member by a body or bodies declared by the Minister by order to be the nominating body or nominating bodies for the purposes of this subparagraph (being a body or bodies that he considers to be representative of the interests of pig producers) 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) not less than twenty-one days before the day on which the term of office of that person as an ordinary member, if he became an ordinary member, would commence, or

(II) a person nominated to be an ordinary member under paragraph (c) of this subsection,

(ii) three persons each of whom is—

(I) a person nominated to be an ordinary member by a body or bodies declared by the Minister by order to be the nominating body or nominating bodies for the purposes of this subparagraph (being a body or bodies that he considers to be representative of the interests of curers of bacon) 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) not less than twenty-one days before the day on which the term of office of that person as an ordinarymember, if he became an ordinary member, would commence, or

(II) a person nominated to be an ordinary member under paragraph (c) of this subsection and

(iii) one person nominated by the Minister who is an officer of the Minister.

(c) If in any year, owing to the failure of a body or bodies referred to in subparagraph (i) or subparagraph (ii), as the case may be, of paragraph (b) of this subsection to nominate a person or to comply with the provisions of the said subparagraph (i) or (ii), as the case may be, the required number of persons is not nominated under those subparagraphs, the Minister shall, before the day on which the term of office of persons nominated as ordinary members under the said paragraph (b) in that year commences, nominate a person or persons, as the case may be, to be an ordinary member or ordinary members and the person or persons so nominated shall—

(i) in case the failure was of a body or bodies referred to in the said subparagraph (i), be a person or persons whom the Minister considers to be representative of the interests of pig producers, and

(ii) in case the failure was of a body or bodies referred to in the said subparagraph (ii), be a person or persons whom the Minister considers to be representative of the interests of curers of bacon.

(d) The Minister may by order revoke or amend an order under this subsection including an order under this paragraph.”.