Pigs and Bacon Act, 1937

Increase of production quotas and consequential increase of production sub-quotas.

22.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Board may by order amend a production order in respect of a production period by appointing an additional quantity of bacon (in this section referred to as the additional quota) to be produced during such period, and in such case the Board shall, not later than three days after the making of the amending order, cause to be served on each licensee of licensed premises upon whom a copy of the production sub-quota certificate in respect of such production period was served a copy of the amending order and thereupon the production sub-quota for such premises in respect of such production period shall, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, be increased by a quantity of bacon which bears to the additional quota the same proportion as the sum of the home-sales sub-quota and the external-sales sub-quota (if any) for such premises for the sale period and the external-sale period respectively next immediately preceding the date of such order bears to the sum of the sales quota for such sale period and the external-sales quota for such external-sale period.

(2) The Board shall not make an order under this section amending a production order later than ten days before the expiration of the production period appointed by such production order.