Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935

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Consignment certificates.

57.—(1) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, make an order (in this Act referred to as a bacon (consignment certificates) order) requiring that, whenever any lot of bacon, to which a veterinary examiner has applied the marks prescribed by the regulations for the marking of bacon, is being consigned, such bacon shall be accompanied by a certificate (in this Part of this Act referred to as a consignment certificate) in the form specified in such order, issued by a veterinary examiner under this section certifying the number of pieces of bacon in such lot.

(2) The Minister may by order under this sub-section amend or revoke a bacon (consignment certificates) order or any order made under this sub-section.

(3) Whenever a bacon (consignment certificates) order is in force and a licensee proposes to consign in one lot a particular number of pieces of bacon to which the marks prescribed by the regulations for the marking of bacon have been applied by a veterinary examiner, such examiner shall, at the request of such licensee, issue to him a consignment certificate certifying the number of pieces of bacon in such lot.