Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1941
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Levies on certain butter held in stock. |
4.—(1) In this section and the next following section— | |
the expression “registered proprietor” means a person who is the registered proprietor of premises registered in either the register of butter factories kept in pursuance of the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 (No. 58 of 1924), or the register of non-manufacturing exporters kept in pursuance of that Act; | ||
the expression “butter trader” means a person (not being the registered proprietor of a creamery) who is a butter trader within the meaning of the Dairy Produce Act, 1931 (No. 29 of 1931). | ||
(2) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, by order declare— | ||
(a) that a specified date (in this sub-section referred to as the appointed date) shall be the appointed date for the purposes of such order, and | ||
(b) that there shall be paid to the Minister— | ||
(i) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader who holds or on whose behalf there is held anywhere on the appointed date not less than three hundredweight of creamery butter (not being creamery butter intended for export and subsequently exported) a levy on such butter at the rate specified in such order in respect of creamery butter, and | ||
(ii) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader who holds or on whose behalf there is held anywhere on the appointed date not less than three hundredweight of non-creamery butter (not being non-creamery butter intended for export and subsequently exported) a levy on such butter at the rate specified in such order in respect of non-creamery butter. | ||
(3) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall have the force of law. | ||
(4) Every levy under this section shall become due and payable— | ||
(a) in the case of butter which, on the date declared by the order imposing such levy to be the appointed date for the purposes of such order, is held in cold store under and in accordance with a scheme approved of by the Minister—on the seventh day after the day on which the butter is removed from cold store, and | ||
(b) in every other case—on the seventh day after the said appointed date. | ||
(5) Sections 21 and 23 of the Principal Act shall apply in respect of any levy under this section with and subject to the following modifications, that is to say:— | ||
(a) references in the said sections to Part III of the Principal Act shall be construed as references to this section, | ||
(b) references to a levy month shall be construed as references to the date which is declared by the order imposing such levy to be the appointed date for the purposes of such order. | ||
(6) All moneys from time to time received by the Minister on foot of any levy under this section shall be paid into the dairy produce (price stabilisation) fund. | ||
(7) Section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938 (No. 30 of 1938), is hereby repealed. |