Flour and Wheatenmeal Act, 1956

Manufacture of flour confectionery and other commodities.

12.—(1) In this section “flour confectionery” means any product of flour to which sugar or other sweetening matter has been added, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, includes biscuits.

(2) The Minister may prescribe the percentage of wheat of which flour for use in flour confectionery or any other specified commodity is to be composed and, in such case, except in accordance with a permit, a person shall not in the course of any business use any flour other than flour of the prescribed percentage in the manufacture of flour confectionery or any such specified commodity.

(3) Except in accordance with a permit, a person shall not in the course of any business use wheatenmeal in the manufacture of flour confectionery or any such specified commodity.

(4) The price to be charged by the holder of a milling licence for flour of the percentage prescribed under this section produced at the mill shall not exceed such price as may be specified in a permit granted to that person for the production of that flour.

(5) The price to be charged by the holder of a milling licence for standard wheatenmeal produced at the mill for use in the manufacture of flour confectionery or other specified commodities in accordance with a permit shall not exceed such price as may be specified in a permit granted to that person for the production of wheatenmeal.