Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) (Amendment) Act, 1938

Amendment of the Schedule to the Principal Act.

5.—(1) Where a person held, at any time during any half-year (being either a first half-year commencing on or after the 1st day of July, 1937, or a second half-year commencing on or after the 1st day of January, 1937), a pork exporter's licence in respect of registered premises, and such person also held, at any time during such half-year, a bacon-curing licence in respect of such premises, the following provisions shall, for the purposes of computing under the Schedule to the Principal Act the exporters's half-yearly fee payable by such person in respect of such premises for such half-year, have effect, that is to say:—

(a) if such pork exporter's licence is the only exporter's licence held by such person in respect of such premises at any time during such half-year, the minimum fee in respect of such pork exporter's licence for such half-year shall be deemed to be nought;

(b) if such person held at any time during such half-year, in addition to such pork exporter's licence, one other exporter's licence in respect of such premises, the collective minimum fee in respect of both such exporter's licences for such half-year shall be deemed to be, in case such other exporter's licence is a beef exporter's licence, fifty pounds, or, in any other case, twenty-five pounds;

(c) if such person held at any time during such half-year, in addition to such pork exporter's licence, two or more other exporter's licences in respect of such premises and none of such other exporter's licences is a beef exporter's licence, the collective minimum fee in respect of all such exporter's licences for such half-year shall be deemed to be fifty pounds.

(2) This section shall be construed as one with the Schedule to the Principal Act.

(3) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation and shall have effect as on and from the 1st day of January, 1937.