Agricultural Produce (Cereals) (Amendment) Act, 1933

Grant and revocation of licences.

11.—(1) The Minister may, if he so thinks it expedient, grant to the holder of a milling licence or a registered wheat dealer a sale (wheat seed) licence.

(2) Every sale (wheat seed) licence shall be expressed and operate to authorise the licensee to sell certificated wheat subject however to the following conditions, that is to say:—

(a) that such wheat shall not be sold to a person, who is not an excepted person, unless at the time of such sale the purchaser signs and delivers to the licensee an undertaking (in this sub-section referred to as a purchaser's undertaking) in writing in the prescribed form to use such wheat for seed and no other purpose;

(b) that the licensee shall not sell such wheat to a person, who is not an excepted person, at a price less than, in case such sale takes place during a sale (wheat) season, the standard price for such season or, in case such sale takes place between two sale (wheat) seasons, the standard price for the later of such seasons;

(c) that the licensee shall keep the following records of every sale of such wheat to a person, who is not an excepted person, that is to say, the name and address of the purchaser, the date of sale, the quantity of such wheat sold, and price paid therefor;

(d) that the licensee shall, on demand made at any reasonable time by an inspector produce to such inspector such records and any purchasers' undertakings delivered to the licensee under paragraph (a) of this sub-section and not sent to the Minister, and permit such inspector to inspect such records and undertakings;

(e) that the licensee shall within one month after the expiration of every levy period send to the Minister—

(i) any purchasers' undertakings delivered to him during such period, and

(ii) a return showing, the quantity of such wheat sold by him during such levy period to persons who are not excepted persons, the name and address of each purchaser, and the price paid by such purchaser;

(f) such other conditions (including a condition as to the duration of the licence) as the Minister thinks fit.

(3) The Minister may at any time revoke a sale (wheat seed) licence.

(4) In this section the word “inspector” means a person authorised in writing by the Minister to exercise the powers conferred on an inspector by this section.