Producers’ licences

(1) The Committee, as soon as practicable after the receipt of an authorisation issued by the Board under section 16, shall issue licences in accordance with the following provisions of this section to all producers who are members of the Association desiring to produce and deliver citrus to REVISD EDITION 2020 Printed by Authority of the Government of Belize 28 (2) Such licences shall be issued for the respective period or periods stated in such authorisation and shall conform with any terms or conditions contained in such authorisation. (3) The licence to be issued to each producer under this section shall be for such quantity of merchantable mature citrus as is determined by the Committee. (4) If it appears to the Committee during the course of a year of operation that any producer has failed to produce the amount of citrus which he had been licensed to produce, the Committee may, with the approval of the Board, issue additional licences to any other producer or producers permitting them to deliver to processors an amount of citrus in excess of the quantity stated in their licences. (5) Any producer aggrieved by the terms and conditions of his licence may appeal to the Board which may dismiss such appeal or allow such appeal and substitute such terms and conditions as it sees fit. cess