Catalogue description Milk Marketing Board: Milk Marketing Scheme and Milk Contracts Files

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Reference: JV 4
Title: Milk Marketing Board: Milk Marketing Scheme and Milk Contracts Files
Description:

This series deals with legal and contractual aspects of Milk Marketing Board's work. These include the Milk Marketing Scheme 1933 and subsequent amendments; complaints and objections to the scheme, particularly public inquiries; polls of producers; pre-war government policy; agricultural marketing schemes; Ministry of Food wartime control; post-war restoration of Milk Marketing Board powers; European Economic Community regulation and its effect on Milk Marketing Board.

Date: 1924-1995
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 209 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Administrative / biographical background:

The 1933 Milk Marketing Scheme was subsequently amended in 1936, 1937 (twice), 1939, 1950, 1955, 1969, 1977, 1979, 1981 (twice), 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1992. For example the 1950 Order introduced ministerial appointees to the board, and the 1955 Order a Joint Committee for Consultation with Purchasers' Representatives.

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