Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933

Information from certain shareholders.

35.—(1) The Minister may from time to time serve a notice in writing on any person who holds any shares in a body corporate to which this section applies requiring such person within sixty days after the service of such notice to send to the Minister a return stating whether he is or is not the beneficial owner of such shares and, in respect of such (if any) of the said shares as are held by him for other persons, the names and addresses of such other persons, specifying in the case of each such other person the number and nominal value of the shares held for him.

(2) The Minister may from time to time serve a notice in writing on any person who holds any shares in a body corporate which holds any shares in a body corporate to which this section applies requiring such person within sixty days after the service of such notice to state whether he is or is not the beneficial owner of the shares so held by him, and in respect of such (if any) of the said shares as are held by him for other persons, the names and addresses of such other persons, specifying in the case of each such other person the number and nominal value of the shares held for him.

(3) If any person on whom a notice is served under this section either refuses or neglects to make a return in accordance with such notice or makes a return which is false or misleading in any material respect, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part III of the First Schedule to this Act.

(4) This section applies to every body corporate which is the holder of a milling licence.

(5) A notice under this section may be served by delivering it to the person to whom it is addressed or by sending it by registered post to the person to whom it is addressed at his last known place of abode.