Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938

Prohibition on buying butter at less than the minimum price.

12.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to purchase for re-sale any butter at a price which is, on the date of such purchase, less than the minimum price fixed under section 39 of the Principal Act in respect of such butter.

(2) Every person who purchases butter in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.