Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Act, 1939

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Recovery of fees.

17.—(1) Every eggs acquisition fee and every annual fee which is not paid within the time limited by this Act for the payment thereof shall be recoverable by the Minister as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction and shall be so recoverable notwithstanding and without prejudice to the exercise by the Minister of the power conferred on him by the next following sub-section of this section.

(2) Where a person liable to pay an eggs acquisition fee or an annual fee fails to pay such fee within the time limited by this Act for the payment thereof, it shall be lawful for the Minister to cancel the registration in the register of wholesalers, the register of retailers, or the register of dealers (as the case may be) of all premises in respect of which such person is registered in such register.

(3) Where the registration of any premises is cancelled by virtue of the next preceding sub-section of this section and the fee, the non-payment of which occasioned such cancellation, is paid within three months after the expiration of the time limited by this Act for the payment thereof, the Minister may, if he so thinks proper, restore the said premises, as on and from the date on which such fee is so paid, to the register in which the registration of such premises was so cancelled.