Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935

Prohibition of unregistered businesses.

11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, it shall not be lawful for any person, on or after the appointed day, to carry on the business of selling non-creamery butter of his own manufacture unless such person is registered in the register of producers of non-creamery butter.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, it shall not be lawful for any person, on or after the appointed day, to carry on the business of acquiring non-creamery butter either for resale or for use in a butter factory unless such person is registered in the register of distributors of non-creamery butter.

(3) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to or operate to prohibit—

(a) the sale of butter to a person who is registered in the register of distributors of non-creamery butter, or

(b) the carrying on of a business of acquiring non-creamery butter for resale or for use in a butter factory, where all the non-creamery butter acquired for the purposes of such business is acquired from persons who are registered in a register kept in pursuance of this Part of this Act, or

(c) the sale of butter under and in accordance with an exemption licence granted under this Part of this Act.

(4) Every person who carries on any business in contravention of 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 such offence, to a fine not exceeding five pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent such offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, together with, in every case, a further fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such offence continues.

(5) The Minister may by order appoint a day to be the appointed day for the purposes of this section, and in this section the expression “the appointed day” means the day so appointed.