Seed Supply Act, 1924

Validation of supply of seed potatoes or seed oats by county councils.

1.—(1) Where the council of a county have or shall have, on or after the 1st day of December 1923 and before the 1st day of December 1924 and with the sanction of the Minister, provided a supply of seed potatoes or of seed oats or of both seed potatoes and seed oats for distribution in such county or in any particular portion thereof, it shall be lawful for such council to sell any of such seed potatoes or seed oats to any occupier or cultivator of land in such county or such particular portion thereof (as the case may be), and any sale made by such council before the passing of this Act of any such seed potatoes or seed oats to any such occupier or cultivator shall be deemed to be and always to have been legal and valid.

(2) Any sum owing to the council of a county in respect of any sale of any such seed potatoes or seed oats as aforesaid shall be paid to such council, at the option of the council, either at the time and in the manner agreed on at the time of the sale or by three equal instalments payable on the respective dates appointed for the purpose by the council, and in either case may be collected and recovered in the manner authorised by this Act.