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(1) These regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Wages Board (Amendment) Regulations 1982, and shall come into operation on 17th September 1982.
(2) In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Agricultural Wages Board Regulations 1949, and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the principal regulations.
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(1) The principal regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2—
(a) for the definition of “The Minister” there shall be substituted the following definition—“

 “The Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State jointly;
”, and
(b) after the definition of “The Board” there shall be added the following definitions—“

 “The NFU Council” means the Council of the National Farmers' Union;
 “The General Executive Council” means the General Executive Council of the Transport and General Workers' Union;
”.
(3) For regulation 3 there shall be substituted the following regulation—“


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(1) The members of the Board representing employers shall be nominated by the NFU Council and the members representing workers in agriculture shall be nominated by the General Executive Council.
(2) If the NFU Council or the General Executive Council, as the case may be, shall fail to nominate within such period of the occurrence of any vacancy as the Minister may direct a person to fill such vacancy, the Minister may fill the vacancy by nominating any person whom he may consider to be fit and proper for that purpose to act as a member of the Board.
”.

(4) For regulation 5 there shall be substituted the following regulation—“


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The NFU Council, the General Executive Council or the Minister may, by notice to the Secretary of the Board and the member affected, terminate the membership of a person whom it or he has nominated or appointed, as the case may be, if, in the opinion of that Council, General Executive Council or Minister, there is good and sufficient cause for such termination.
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In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 16th August 1982.
Peter Walker
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Michael Roberts
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales
17th August 1982