Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1932

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Levy on farm butter purchased by butter traders and butter factory owners.

14.—(1) The Minister may serve a notice in writing on any butter trader or butter factory owner requiring such trader or owner to pay to the Minister not later than the seventh day after the expiration of the levy month specified in such notice and every subsequent levy month on all farm butter acquired by purchase, exchange or barter by such trader or owner during such levy month for use in a butter factory or for resale a levy at the general rate in force at the time of acquisition.

(2) Whenever a notice under this section is served on a butter trader or a butter factory owner, there shall until the Minister otherwise directs be paid by such trader or owner to the Minister not later than the seventh day after the expiration of the levy month specified in such notice and every subsequent levy month on all farm butter acquired by purchase, exchange or barter by such trader or owner during such month for use in a butter factory or for resale, a levy at the general rate in force at the time of acquisition.

(3) In this section the expression “butter factory” does not include premises registered in the register of butter factories.

(4) The factory butter account shall be credited with all moneys received by the Minister under this section in respect of butter acquired for use in a butter factory and the miscellaneous butter account shall be credited with all other moneys received by the Minister under this section.