Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Act, 1939

Annual fees.

16.—(1) Every registered dealer shall pay to the Minister, in respect of every year during which or during any part of which he is registered in the register of dealers, a fee (in this Act referred to as an annual fee) of the prescribed amount or, until an amount is prescribed for such fee, of the amount of one pound.

(2) Save as is otherwise provided by the next following sub-section of this section, every annual fee shall become due on the 1st day of January in the year in respect of which it is payable and shall be paid before the 1st day of March in that year.

(3) The annual fee payable by a registered dealer in respect of the year in which he becomes registered in the register of dealers shall become due on the day on which he becomes so registered, and shall be paid before the expiration of two months from that day.