Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933

Inspection of registered premises.

60.—(1) An inspector shall be entitled at all reasonable times to enter any premises entered in any register (other than the register of wheat growers) or the premises of any person who has made an application for registration in any such register in respect of such premises, and there do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) examine any wheat (whether imported or home-grown), flour, wheaten meal, maize, maize meal, home-grown cereals (other than wheat), offals or screenings of wheat or other cereals, maize meal mixture, raw materials for the manufacture of compound feeding stuffs or compound feeding stuff, found on such premises, and take reasonable samples of such wheat, flour, wheaten meal, maize, maize meal, home-grown cereals (other than wheat), offals or screenings of wheat or other cereals, maize meal mixture, raw materials for the manufacture of compound feeding stuffs or compound feeding stuff, and

(b) if such premises are not registered in the register of distillers or are not the subject of an application for registration in such register inspect all or any part of such premises and the equipment, appliances and fittings therein.

(2) Any inspector shall be entitled at all reasonable times to enter upon any premises entered in or the subject of an application for entry in the register of wheat growers and to inspect all or any part of such premises or the crop of wheat growing or grown thereon or the produce of such crop.

(3) Every person who shall obstruct or impede any inspector in the exercise of any of the powers conferred on him by this section 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 fine not exceeding five pounds or, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(4) An offence under this section if committed on premises entered in or the subject of an application for entry in the register of flour importers, or the register of distillers may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister for Industry and Commerce as prosecutor, and if committed on any premises entered in or the subject of an application for entry in any other register may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister for Agriculture as prosecutor.

(5) In this section the expression “an inspector” means—

(a) in relation to premises entered in or the subject of an application for entry in the register of flour importers, or the register of distillers, an inspector of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, and

(b) in relation to premises entered in or the subject of an application for entry in any other register, an inspector of the Minister for Agriculture.