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Application of Act to auction marts.
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4.—(1) An auctioneer shall not, unless exempted by order of the Board of Agriculture[1]
from the requirements of this section, sell cattle at any mart where cattle are habitually or periodically sold, unless there are provided at that mart similar facilities for weighing cattle as are required by the principal Act and this Act in the case of cattle sold at a market or fair to which the principal Act applies.
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(2) Every auctioneer who in any place from which returns are required to be made under this Act sells cattle at any such mart as aforesaid shall, unless exempted as aforesaid, make the like returns to the Board of Agriculture[1]
with respect to cattle entering, weighed, and sold at that mart as are required by this Act to be made by a market authority, and shall be subject to the like penalty for making any false or fraudulent statement in any such return.
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(3) If any such auctioneer makes default in complying with the requirements of this section, the auctioneer, or, if he is in the employment of any person, the person by whom he is employed, shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or in case of a continuing offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during which the offence continues.
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[1 Now styled the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, see 3 Edw. 7. c. 31, s. 1 (1).]
[1 Now styled the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, see 3 Edw. 7. c. 31, s. 1 (1).] |
