Whereas the Ministers hereinafter named directed the Committee of Investigation for Great Britain, appointed under the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1958, to consider and report on certain complaints made to the Ministers as to the operation of the British Wool Marketing Scheme, 1950(1);

And Whereas the Committee of Investigation have reported to the Ministers that certain acts or omissions of the Board administering the said Scheme are contrary to the interests of certain persons affected by the Scheme and are not in the public interest;

And Whereas, after considering the report and consulting the said Board, the Ministers have thought fit to direct the Board to take such steps to rectify certain of the matters complained of as are hereinafter specified;

Now therefore the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for the Home Department (being the Secretaries of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively), in exercise of the powers conferred on them by subsection (6) of section 19 of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1958, and of all other powers them enabling in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—