Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1934
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Restrictions on sale of imported wheaten flour. |
63.—(1) Whenever a milling (composite flour) order is in force, it shall not be lawful for any registered flour importer to sell any imported wheaten flour unless such wheaten flour is sold to another registered flour importer, the holder of a milling licence or the Minister or such wheaten flour is sold under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Minister under this section. | |
(2) If any registered flour importer acts in contravention of this section such registered flour importer shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part I of the Schedule to this Act. | ||
(3) Where a registered flour importer acts in contravention of this section such registered flour importer shall, for the purposes of section 61 of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, be deemed to have acted in contravention of the Principal Act, and the said section 61 , as so amended, shall apply and have effect accordingly. | ||
(4) An offence under this section may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister as prosecutor. | ||
(5) The Minister may on the application of a registered flour importer grant to such importer a licence expressed to authorise such importer, subject to compliance with such conditions as he thinks fit to impose, to sell imported wheaten flour to a specified person without limit as to time or quantity or either of them or within a specified time or in a specified quantity. | ||
(6) Every licence granted under this section to a registered flour importer shall operate to authorise such importer, subject to compliance with such conditions (if any) as may be specified therein, to sell imported wheaten flour to the person specified therein either (as may be specified therein) without limit as to time or quantity or either of them or within a specified time or in a specified quantity. |