Tobacco Act, 1934

Sale Orders.

40.—(1) As soon as may be after all the catalogues of packages of tobacco grown in any year have been delivered to the Minister for Industry and Commerce, the said Minister shall allocate all the packages of tobacco comprised in such catalogue amongst all manufacturers in such manner as the said Minister thinks proper having regard to the quantity, classes, and types of tobacco manufactured by each such manufacturer during the period of twelve months ending on the 5th day of July of the previous year, and in making such allocation the said Minister shall allocate specified packages of tobacco packed by particular rehandlers to particular manufacturers.

(2) As soon as any allocation has been made under the immediately preceding sub-section the Minister for Industry and Commerce shall serve on every manufacturer to whom any specified packages of tobacco packed by a particular rehandler have been allocated and on such rehandler an order (in this Act referred to as a sale order) requiring such rehandler to sell and within a specified time to deliver to such manufacturer and such manufacturer to purchase from such rehandler at a sum equal to the total of the catalogue price of each such package such specified packages of tobacco, and such order shall specify the time within which such sum is to be paid, the time and place at which the tobacco is to be delivered to such manufacturer, and such other terms of sale as the said Minister shall think necessary.

(3) In this Act the expression “the vendor” and “the purchaser” in relation to a sale order mean respectively the person required by such order to sell and the person required by such order to purchase the tobacco to which such order relates.