Milk (Regulation of Supply and Price) (Amendment) Act, 1941
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Provision for yearly contracts. |
28.—(1) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, make in any year an order declaring that sub-section (3) of this section shall come into force in respect of a joint district on a specified date (being a date subsequent to the making of such order and not later than the 1st day of September in such year). | |
(2) The Minister may at any time revoke an order made under sub-section (1) of this section. | ||
(3) Whenever an order is made under sub-section (1) of this section in any year declaring that sub-section (3) of this section shall come into force in respect of a joint district on a specified date (in this sub-section referred to as the appointed date), the following provisions shall, so long as such order is in force have effect, that is to say:— | ||
(a) any contract for the sale of milk made between a registered producer in respect of such district and a registered retailer or a registered wholesaler in respect of such district which has been approved under section 47 of the Principal Act by the chairman of the board for such joint district before the appointed date shall, if it provides for the delivery of milk thereunder after the 30th day of September in such year, be construed and have effect as if it provided that the period during which milk was deliverable thereunder should expire on the said 30th day of September; | ||
(b) a contract for the sale of milk made between a registered producer in respect of such district and a registered retailer or a registered wholesaler in respect of such district which provides for the delivery of any milk thereunder after the 30th day of September in such year shall not, except with the consent of the Minister, be approved under the said section 47 by the said chairman on or after the appointed date, unless it is for a period of twelve months commencing on the 1st day of October in such year or some subsequent year. |