Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1934

Records to be kept by holders of milling licences during currency of a sale (composite flour) order.

69.—(1) Whenever a sale (composite flour) order is in force it shall be the duty of every person who is the holder of a milling licence in respect of a mill to keep at the appointed place, in addition to any records which he may be required by the Principal Act or any other provision of this Act to keep the following records in the prescribed form, that is to say:—

(a) in case such order prohibits the sale by any holder of a milling licence of any flour of which wheaten flour is a component part unless such flour contains oaten flour—

(i) a record of all purchases and dispositions of oats oat-kernels and oaten flour,

(ii) a record of the quantity of oat-kernels milled into oaten flour,

(iii) a record of the quantities of oaten flour and wheaten flour mixed at such mill and of all dispositions of such mixture;

(b) in case such order prohibits the sale by any holder of a milling licence unless such flour contains standard milk powder—

(i) a record of all purchases and dispositions of standard milk powder,

(ii) a record of the quantities of standard milk powder mixed with wheaten flour or flour containing wheaten flour and oaten flour at such mill and of all dispositions of such mixture;

and within twenty-four hours after the completion of such purchases, millings, mixings or dispositions to enter in the said records the prescribed particulars thereof.

(2) Sub-sections (2), (3) and (4) of section 32 of the Principal Act shall apply in respect of records required by this section to be kept in like manner as the said sub-sections apply in respect of records required by sub-section (1) of the said section 32 to be kept.

(3) The expression “the appointed place” has in this section the meaning assigned to it by paragraph (d) of sub-section (4) of section 32 of the Principal Act.

(4) The Minister may by order make regulations in relation to any matter or thing referred to in sub-section (1) of this section as prescribed, and the word “prescribed” in the said sub-section (1) means prescribed by regulations made under this sub-section.

(5) Where a licence has been granted, under sub-section (2) of section 28 of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, authorising the holder of a milling licence in respect of a particular mill to mill into wheaten meal the whole of the quota for such mill in respect of the preliminary quota period (if any) or a specified quota year, the provisions of this section shall not apply in respect of such holder in relation to such mill during such preliminary quota period or quota year.