Milk (Regulation of Supply and Price) Act, 1936
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Fixing of minimum prices for milk. |
43.—(1) Where the determination of a board for a joint district under the immediately preceding section has been communicated to the Minister, the Minister shall consider such determination and thereupon the following provision shall have effect, that is to say:— | |
(a) in case such determination is the first determination of such board, the Minister shall make an order fixing— | ||
(i) the minimum prices to be paid to registered producers in respect of such district for milk sold by them to registered retailers in respect of such district, and | ||
(ii) the minimum prices to be paid to such registered producers for milk sold by them to registered wholesalers in respect of such district, | ||
(b) in any other case, the Minister may, if he thinks proper, do any of the following things:— | ||
(i) revoke any order previously made by him under this section and then in force and, if he thinks proper, make a new order fixing the said prices; | ||
(ii) amend any order previously made by him under this section and then in force. | ||
(2) In making any order under this section the Minister may fix different prices in respect of milk sold under different sets of conditions (defined in such manner and by reference to such things as the Minister thinks proper). | ||
(3) In this Act— | ||
the expression “the appropriate statutory minimum price” when used in relation to milk sold by a registered producer in respect of a joint district to a registered retailer or a registered wholesaler in respect of such district, under a particular set of conditions specified in an order made in relation to such district and for the time being in force, means the price, for the time being fixed by such order, of milk when so sold by a registered producer in respect of such district to a registered retailer or registered wholesaler in respect of such district under such set of conditions. | ||
(4) If any person being a registered producer in respect of a joint district sells any milk to any other person being a registered retailer or a registered wholesaler in respect of such district at a price less than the appropriate statutory minimum price, each of such persons shall be severally guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in the Schedule to this Act. | ||
(5) If any person being a registered wholesaler in respect of a joint district sells any milk to another person being a registered retailer in respect of such district at a price less than the price which would, if such registered wholesaler were a registered producer in respect of such district, be the appropriate statutory minimum price, each of such persons shall be severally guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in the Schedule to this Act. | ||
Restriction on wholesale sale and purchase of milk in sale districts. |