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Validation of supply of seeds or fertilisers by county councils.
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2.—(1) Where the council of a county have or shall have on or after the 9th day of March, 1932, and before the date of the passing of this Act provided a supply of seeds or of fertilisers or of both seeds and fertilisers for distribution in such county or in any particular portion thereof, it shall be lawful for such council to sell any of such seeds or fertilisers to any occupier or cultivator of land in such county or such particular portion thereof (as the case may be) and any sale made by such council before the passing of this Act of any such seeds or fertilisers to any such occupier or cultivator shall be deemed to have been made under this Act and to be and always to have been legal and valid.
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(2) Whenever the council of a county sells or has sold under this Act any seeds or fertilisers or both seeds and fertilisers, any sum owing to such council in respect of any such sale shall carry and shall be deemed always to have carried interest at such rate per cent. per annum as may be fixed (whether before or after the passing of this Act) in that behalf by such council, notwithstanding that no agreement to pay interest was made at the time of such sale.
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(3) Whenever the council of a county sells or has sold under this Act any seeds or fertilisers or both seeds and fertilisers, such council may ascertain the amount of the costs and expenses (other than the price paid by such council for such seeds or fertilisers or both seeds and fertilisers) incurred by such council in respect of all such sales and may apportion such amount amongst the persons to whom any such seeds or fertilisers or seeds and fertilisers were so sold, and thereupon the sum so apportioned shall be added to and form and be deemed always to have formed part of the sum owing to such council by such person in respect of such sale and shall be recoverable under this Act accordingly notwithstanding that no agreement for the payment of such sum was made at the time of such sale.
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(4) Any sum owing to the council of a county in respect of any sale (including the interest and proportion of costs and expenses payable by virtue of this section) of any such seeds or fertilisers as aforesaid shall be paid to such council, at the option of such council, either at the time and in the manner agreed on at the time of the sale or by two equal instalments payable on the respective dates appointed for the purpose by such council, and in either case may be collected and recovered in the manner authorised by this Act.
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