Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935

Freight allowance.

141.—(1) The Board shall, at the meeting at which it makes the first price order, make an order (in this Part of this Act referred to as a freight allowance order)—

(a) dividing Saorstát Eireann into such and so many areas (in this Part of this Act referred to as sale areas) as the Board thinks fit; and

(b) in respect of each sale area, fixing the sum which is to be the freight allowance in respect of each pig or carcase sold in such area;

and different sums may be fixed in respect of different sale areas.

(2) The Board may at any time by order under this sub-section amend the order made under the immediately preceding sub-section or any order made under this sub-section.

(3) In this Part of this Act, the expression “the freight allowance” means in relation to a pig or carcase sold in a particular sale area, the sum for the time being fixed by an order under this section as the freight allowance in respect of a pig or carcase sold in such area.