Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1934

Amendment of section 71 of the Principal Act.

23.—(1) No wheat bounty shall be payable under section 71 of the Principal Act on any fraction of a barrel of wheat.

(2) Where—

(a) home-grown millable wheat has been sold by any person to the holder of a milling licence, and

(b) such person would, but for this sub-section, be entitled to be paid a wheat bounty in respect of such wheat, and

(c) such holder sells to such person some or all of the flour or meal derived from such wheat and no other wheat,

no wheat bounty shall, notwithstanding anything contained in section 71 of the Principal Act, be paid to such person in respect of such wheat.

(3) Section 71 of the Principal Act is hereby amended in the following respects and shall be construed and have effect accordingly, that is to say:—

(a) by the substitution in sub-section (1) thereof of the words “prescribed with the consent of the Minister for Finance in relation to” for the words “of three months before the commencement of” now contained therein; and

(b) by the substitution in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) thereof of the words “prescribed with the consent of the Minister for Finance in relation to” for the words “of three months next preceding the commencement of” now contained therein.