Flax Act, 1936

Returns by registered proprietors of registered premises.

22.—(1) The Minister may by order make regulations requiring registered proprietors of premises registered in a register kept under this Act to make periodical returns to the Minister, and the Minister may by such regulations prescribe—

(a) the returns so to be made to him by registered proprietors of registered flax-growing premises, and the times at which and the form and manner in which such returns are to be made, and

(b) the returns so to be made to him by registered proprietors of registered scutch-milling premises, and the times at which and the manner in which such returns are to be made.

(2) Every person, required by regulations made under this section to make any return, who fails or refuses to make such return in accordance in all respects with such regulations shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first such offence, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent such offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.