Seeds and Fertilisers Supply Act, 1941

Guarantees by county councils.

5.—(1) It shall be and be deemed always to have been lawful for the council of a county to make and carry out a scheme whereby such council undertakes to guarantee to any approved seed merchant the due payment to such merchant of the whole or a specified proportion of the price payable by an approved occupier or cultivator of land in such county for seeds and fertilisers or seeds only or fertilisers only supplied by such merchant to such approved occupier or cultivator during the period beginning on the 1st day of January, 1941, and ending on the 31st day of July, 1941.

(2) Sub-section (3) of section 4 of the Principal Act shall apply and have effect in relation to a guarantee given in pursuance of a scheme authorised by the foregoing sub-section of this section in like manner as it applies and has effect in relation to guarantees given in pursuance of a scheme authorised by the said section 4, but subject to the general modification effected by this Act of the expression “this Act”.

(3) In this section the word “approved” means approved of by the council concerned.