Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Act, 1939

Returns by registered proprietors of registered premises.

25.—(1) The Minister may by order make regulations requiring the registered proprietors of registered premises to make periodical returns to the Minister, and the Minister may by such regulations prescribe all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) the returns so to be made by registered wholesalers;

(b) the returns so to be made by registered dealers;

(c) the returns so to be made by registered retailers;

(d) the returns so to be made by registered preservers;

(e) the times at which such returns are respectively to be made;

(f) the form and manner in which such returns are respectively to be made.

(2) Every person, required by regulations made under this section to make any return, who fails or refuses to make such return in accordance in all respects with such regulations shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first such offence, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent such offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.