Pigs and Bacon Act, 1937

Home-sales sub-quotas for licensed premises.

27.—(1) Whenever the Board on or after the appointed day makes a home-sales order at any meeting the Board shall at such meeting make an order (in this Part of this Act referred to as an allocation (home-sales quota) order) allotting the sales quota in respect of the sale period appointed by such home-sales order between all licensed premises in such proportions as the Board thinks proper, and references in this Part of this Act to the home-sales sub-quota for particular licensed premises in respect of a particular sale period shall, subject to the provisions of the next following section, be construed as references to the portion of the sales quota in respect of such sale period allotted to such premises by an allocation (home-sales quota) order.

(2) Whenever on or after the appointed day the Board makes an allocation (home-sales quota) order in respect of a particular sale period, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) the Board shall make in respect of each licensed premises a certificate (in this Part of this Act referred to as a home-sales sub-quota certificate) certifying the quantity of bacon which has been allotted to such premises by such order and the sale period to which such order relates, and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the matters so certified;

(b) the Board shall, before the commencement of such period, cause a copy of such certificate to be served on the licensee in respect of such premises.

(3) The Board may, on the joint application of the holder of a licence in respect of particular premises and the holder of a licence in respect of other premises, transfer from such first-mentioned premises to such other premises the whole or any part of the home-sales sub-quota for such first-mentioned premises in respect of a particular sale period, and thereupon the home-sales sub-quota for such first-mentioned premises in respect of such sale period and the home-sales sub-quota for such other premises in respect of such sale period shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act be deemed to have been respectively decreased and increased accordingly.