Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1934

Effect of service of compulsory sale order.

82.—(1) Where a compulsory sale order has been duly served on the vendor and purchaser under such order, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) the vendor and the purchaser shall be deemed to have entered into a contract in terms of the requirements of such order;

(b) if the requirements of such order are not complied with,

(i) the vendor shall, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court that such non-compliance was due to the acts or default of the said purchaser, be guilty of an offence under this section, and,

(ii) the purchaser shall, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court that such non-compliance was due to the acts or default of the said vendor, be guilty of an offence under this section.

(2) Every person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part I of the Schedule to this Act.