Pigs and Bacon Act, 1937

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Weekly returns by licensees of proposed slaughtering of pigs.

66.—(1) The Board may, whenever and so often as it thinks fit, cause to be served on the licensee in respect of any licensed premises a notice in writing (in this section referred to as a returns notice) requiring such licensee to make, until the Board otherwise directs, in respect of the week (which shall not be a week commencing earlier than the twenty-first day after the date of the passing of this Act) specified in such notice and each subsequent week, not later than seven days before such week, a return stating the number of pigs he proposes to slaughter in such premises during such week, and references in this Part of this Act to the slaughtering quota in respect of any licensed premises for any week shall be construed as references to the number of pigs specified in a return made in pursuance of a returns notice, by the licensee in respect of such premises as the number proposed to be slaughtered in such premises during such week.

(2) If any licensee in respect of licensed premises on whom a returns notice is served—

(a) fails, refuses or neglects to make any return in accordance with such notice, or

(b) slaughters, except with the previous consent of the Board, at such licensed premises in any week a number of pigs in excess of the slaughtering quota in respect of such premises for such week,

such licensee shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.