Patents and agricultural schemes

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15 Agricultural schemes: special provisions.

F6C11

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2

The Secretary of State shall not—

F2a

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F3b

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c

make or vary a reference under section 11 above,

in a case where the person to whom or to whose conduct or activities the investigation or reference relates falls within section 11(3)(d) above unless he has first consulted the relevant Minister.

F33

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F34

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5

In this section “the relevant Minister” means—

a

in the case of a board administering a scheme under the said Act of 1958, the Minister who would have power to make an order under section 19 of that Act in relation to that board or the board administering that scheme, and

b

in the case of a board administering a scheme under F4the said Act of 1964F5or the said Order of 1982, the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.