Seeds and Fertilisers Supply Act, 1956

Schemes for sales.

2.—(1) The council of a county may make and carry out a scheme whereby they undertake to sell during a specified sale period seeds and fertilisers or seeds only or fertilisers only to any occupier or cultivator of land in the county or a particular portion thereof.

(2) A scheme under this section shall not be made before the commencement of the period of thirteen months ending on the last day of the sale period specified in the scheme.

(3) Where the council of a county sell pursuant to a scheme under this section seeds and fertilisers or either of them, they may ascertain the total amount of the costs and expenses (other than the price paid by the council for the seeds and fertilisers or seeds or fertilisers, as the case may be) incurred by the council in respect of all sales pursuant to the scheme and may apportion that amount amongst the several persons to whom the sales were made, and thereupon the sum so apportioned to any such person shall be added to, and form and be deemed always to have formed part of, the sum owing to the council by that person in respect of the sale pursuant to the scheme made to him and shall be recoverable under this Act accordingly, notwithstanding that no agreement for the payment thereof was made at the time of such sale.

(4) Where the council of a county sell pursuant to a scheme under this section any goods to any person, the sum payable by him to the council in respect of the sale shall carry interest at such rate per cent. per annum as may be fixed in that behalf by the council, notwithstanding that no agreement to pay interest was made at the time of the sale.

(5) Any sum owing to the council of a county in respect of any sale pursuant to a scheme under this section of any goods (including the interest and proportion of costs and expenses payable by virtue of this section) shall be paid to the council in the manner and within the period specified by the scheme, and may be collected and recovered in the manner authorised by this Act.

(6) The making under this section of a scheme shall be a reserved function for the purposes of the County Management Acts, 1940 to 1955.