Dairy Produce Act, 1924

Sale of butter on registered premises.

33.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, or offer or consign for sale, on or from any premises registered in any register kept in pursuance of this Act any quantity of butter amounting to or exceeding eleven pounds unless the butter has been packed or examined and classified (as the case may require) and the butter and any package and any wrapper in which it is packed has been marked, in all respects in accordance with the provisions of this Act and of any regulations made thereunder.

(2) If any butter shall be sold, or offered or consigned for sale, in contravention of this section, the registered proprietor of the premises on or from which such butter is so sold, or offered or consigned for sale, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, or in the case of a second or any subsequent offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.