Pigs and Bacon (Amendment) Act, 1939

Chapter IV.

Returns by Licensees, Records to be Kept by Licensees and Inspection of Licensed Premises.

Returns to the Commission by licensees.

45.—(1) The Commission may make regulations in relation to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) the returns (including returns in relation to any period or periods commencing before the date of such regulations, but not earlier than the 1st day of July, 1939), to be made to the Commission by holders of licences;

(b) the times at which such returns are to be made;

(c) the forms in which such returns are to be made.

(2) Every person, required by regulations made under this section to make any return, who fails or refuses to make such return in accordance in all respects with such regulations, or who makes in any such return any statement which is false or misleading in any material respect, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence under this section, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence under this section, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.

(3) Until regulations are made under this section and have come into force, sections 112 and 151 of the Act of 1935 and any regulations made under the said sections shall continue in force, subject to the modification that so much of such regulations as requires any return to be made to an abolished board shall be construed as requiring that any such return made on or after the transfer date shall be made to the Commission and, upon the coming into force of regulations under this section, sections 112 and 151 of the Act of 1935 shall cease to be in force.