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Article 3(3)
1. Promoting or undertaking scientific research.
2.—(1) Promoting or undertaking inquiry—
(a) as to materials and equipment, and
(b) as to methods of production, management and labour utilisation.
(2) Promoting or undertaking inquiry under sub-paragraph (1) includes promoting or undertaking—
(a) the discovery and development of—
(i) new materials, equipment and methods, and
(ii) improvements in those already in use,
(b) the assessment of the advantages of different options, and
(c) the conduct of experimental establishments and of tests on a commercial scale.
3. Promoting the production and marketing of standard products.
4. Promoting the better definition of trade descriptions and consistency in the use of trade descriptions.
5. Developing, promoting, marketing or operating—
(a) standards relating to the quality of products, or
(b) systems for the classification of products.
6. Developing, reviewing or operating schemes for the certification of products or of operations connected with production or supply of products.
7. Undertaking the certification of products, the registration of certification trade marks, and the functions of proprietors of such marks.
8. Providing or promoting the provision of—
(a) training for persons engaged in or proposing to be engaged in the industry, and
(b) their education in subjects relevant to the industry.
9.—(1) Promoting—
(a) the adoption of measures for securing safer and better working conditions, and
(b) the provision and improvement of amenities for persons employed.
(2) Promoting or undertaking inquiry as to measures for securing safer and better working conditions.
10. Promoting or undertaking research into the incidence, prevention and cure of industrial diseases.
11. Promoting or undertaking arrangements for encouraging the entry of persons into the industry.
12. Promoting or undertaking research for improving arrangements for marketing and distributing products.
13. Promoting or undertaking research into matters relating to the consumption or use of goods and services supplied by the industry.
14. Promoting arrangements—
(a) for co-operative organisations,
(b) for supplying materials and equipment, and
(c) for marketing and distributing products.
15. Promoting the development of export trade, including promoting or undertaking arrangements for publicity overseas.
16. Promoting or undertaking arrangements for better acquainting the public in the United Kingdom with the goods and services supplied by the industry and methods of using them.
17. Promoting or undertaking the collection and formulation of statistics.
18. Advising on any matters relating to the industry (other than remuneration or conditions of employment) as to which the Welsh Ministers may request the Welsh Levy Board to advise, and undertaking inquiry for the purpose of enabling the Welsh Levy Board to advise on such matters.
19. Undertaking arrangements for making available information obtained, and for advising, on matters with which the Welsh Levy Board is concerned in the exercise of any of its functions.
20. Engaging in any form of collaboration or co-operation with other persons in performing any of its functions.
Article 4
1.—(1) The Welsh Levy Board may determine its own procedure, and in particular it may—
(a) determine a quorum;
(b) appoint committees and sub-committees to advise it in the exercise of any of its functions; and
(c) determine the quorum and procedure of any those committees.
(2) Any committee may include members who are not members of the Welsh Levy Board.
2.—(1) The term of office of the chairman or a board member may not exceed four years.
(2) A member may resign by giving written notice to the Welsh Ministers.
(3) The Welsh Ministers may remove a member who—
(a) has been absent from meetings of the Welsh Levy Board for a period of longer than 6 months without the permission of the Welsh Levy Board,
(b) becomes bankrupt or makes an arrangement with his or her creditors or (in Scotland) has his or her estate sequestrated, or
(c) in the opinion of the Welsh Ministers has become unable, unfit or unsuitable to carry out his or her duties.
(4) A person who ceases to be a member or ceases to be chair or deputy chair is eligible for reappointment to that office.
(5) A member of the board must immediately disclose any direct or indirect interest in any contract or other matter proposed or discussed by the board.
(6) The disclosure must be recorded in the minutes of the Welsh Levy Board, and that member must not take part after the disclosure in any discussion or decision of the board on that contract, but the member may, nevertheless, be taken into account for the purpose of constituting a quorum of the board.
3. Each member (including the chair) has one vote, and if a vote is tied the person who is chair of the meeting has a casting vote.
4.—(1) The Welsh Levy Board may pay to its members any expenses properly incurred by them in carrying out its business, and may pay such remuneration and allowances as the Welsh Ministers determine.
(2) If—
(a) a person ceases to be a member, and
(b) it appears to the Welsh Ministers that there are special circumstances which make it appropriate for the person to receive compensation,
the Welsh Ministers may direct the board to pay the person such amount as the Welsh Ministers determine.
(3) The Welsh Levy Board may pay to committee members any expenses properly incurred by them in carrying out its business, and may pay such remuneration and allowances as may be determined by the Welsh Ministers.
5. The Welsh Levy Board may appoint such employees as it determines, and may pay to them such remuneration and other allowances, and make such provision for pensions, as it determines.
The Welsh Levy Board Order 2008