Creameries (Acquisition) Act, 1943

PART II.

Acquisition by the Company of Creamery Premises and Chattels thereon.

Particulars in relation to creamery premises and chattels thereon.

7.—(1) The Company, with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Finance, may serve upon the proprietor of any creamery premises a notice requiring such proprietor to furnish to the Company within a specified time (not being less than twenty days from such service)—

(a) an abstract (with copies of all abstracted documents) of his title to the said creamery premises, and

(b) an inventory of the chattels on the said creamery premises, and

(c) a statement whether any and, if any, which of those chattels are held by him under contracts of hire or hire purchase and particulars of such contracts, if any.

(2) Where the proprietor of creamery premises complies with a notice served on him under this section the Company shall pay to him all costs necessarily and properly incurred by him in relation to such compliance within thirty days after such costs have been taxed by a Taxing Master of the High Court.

(3) If any person upon whom a notice has been served under this section fails or neglects to comply with such notice such person shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(4) Where—

(a) a person is convicted of an offence under sub-section (3) of this section by reason of his failure or neglect to do the things specified in a notice served on him under this section within the time specified in the notice, and

(b) the said things remain, after the date of such conviction, undone by him,

such person shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds for each day, after the date of such first-mentioned conviction, on which the said things remain undone by him, and such offence shall be a continuing offence and accordingly fresh proceedings in respect thereof may be taken from time to time.