FURNITURE INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ORDER, 1948.(a)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1948/2774 |
| Year | 1948 |
1948 No. 2774
INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND DEVELOPMENT
(2) Furniture Industry
THE FURNITURE INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ORDER, 1948.(a)20thDecember 1948
1stJanuary 1949
The Board of Trade in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by the Industrial Organisation and Development Act, 1947, hereby order as follows:—
Establishment of Development Council.
1.—(1) There is hereby established for the following industry, namely, that section of the Furniture Industry which consists of the activities designated in the First Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as "the designated activities") a development council to be known as the Furniture Development Council to which are assigned the functions specified in the Second Schedule hereto.
(a) In accordance with sub-section (6) of section 1 of the Industrial Organisation and Development Act, 1947, this Order has been approved by a Resolution of each House of Parliament. The Resolution of the House of Lords was passed on the 30th November, 1948, and that of the House of Commons on the 22nd November, 1948.
(2) The Council shall exercise their functions in such manner as appears to them to increase as much as possible efficiency and productivity in the industry for which the Council is established, to improve and develop the service that it renders to the community and to enable it to render that service more economically, and shall have regard to anything being done by any Government department or other body with a view to avoiding duplication of work.
(3) The Council may enter into such agreements, acquire such property and do such things, as may in the opinion of the Council be necessary or desirable for the exercise of any of their functions, and may dispose as they think fit of any property acquired by them.
Constitution of Development Council.
2. The Council shall consist of the following members appointed by the Board of Trade, that is to say:—
(1) seven persons capable of representing the interests of persons carrying on businesses comprising the designated activities;
(2) seven persons capable of representing the interests of persons employed by persons carrying on businesses comprising the designated activities;
(3) three persons as to whom the Board of Trade are satisfied that they have no such financial or industrial interest as is likely to affect them in the discharge of their functions as members of the Council (hereinafter referred to as "independent members"); and
(4) one person having special knowledge of matters relating to the marketing or distribution of products of the industry for which the Council is established.
Matters relating to membership and proceedings.
3. The provisions of the Third Schedule hereto shall have effect in relation to the membership and proceedings of the Council.
Registration of persons carrying on businesses comprising designated activities.
4.—(1) Every person who on the first day of January, 1949, is carrying on a business comprising any of the designated activities shall within one month thereof apply in writing to the Council to be registered and every person who after the said date commences to carry on such a business shall so apply within one month of so commencing.
(2) The Council shall enter in a register to be kept by them the name of every person who has made an application to be registered as aforesaid, the business name (if any) under which he carries on a business comprising any of the designated activities, the principal place of such business and a description of such business. No information relating to persons carrying on such businesses other than that mentioned in this paragraph shall be entered in the register.
(3) Any person required by paragraph (1) hereof to make an application to be registered shall, if so requested by the Council, within such time and in such form as they may specify, furnish such information as the Council may require to make or complete the entry in the register relating to him, as the case may be.
(4) Any person whose name is entered in the register shall notify the Council forthwith of any matter rendering the entry in the register relating to him inaccurate or incomplete.
(5) The Council shall, on receipt of any such notification as is referred to in paragraph (4) hereof, amend the register in accordance therewith.
(6) The Council may, if they have reasonable cause to believe that any person whose name is entered in the register no longer carries on a business comprising any of the designated activities, by notice in writing inform that person of their intention to remove his name from the register unless within one month from the date of the notice he gives notice in writing to the Council that he is a person carrying on such a business, and if no such notice is received by the Council within the said period the Council may on the expiration of that period remove his name from the register.
(7) Any person who fails to comply with any of the requirements of paragraph (1), (3) or (4) hereof shall, unless he proves that he had reasonable cause for the failure, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds in respect of each day during which the failure...
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