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Payment of flax bounty.
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17.—(1) If the average ascertained value per stone of all the flax grown in the area to which this Act applies and lawfully sent for scutching to and scutched in registered scutch-milling premises in any particular sale season is less by three pence or by any greater amount than the standard price per stone for that sale season, the Minister shall, subject to the restrictions imposed by this section, pay to every registered proprietor of registered flax-growing premises a bounty (in this Act referred to as flax bounty) on every complete stone of flax grown on such premises and lawfully scutched as aforesaid equal to the difference between the said average ascertained value per stone and the said standard price per stone.
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(2) The following restrictions shall apply and have effect in relation to the payment by the Minister of flax bounty under this section, that is to say:—
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(a) if the quantity of flax grown in any particular registered flax-growing premises and qualified under the next preceding sub-section of this section for flax bounty in any particular sale season exceeds the quota allotted to such premises for such sale season, flax bounty shall not be payable on the excess of such flax above such quota;
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(b) no flax bounty shall be payable in any particular sale season to the registered proprietor of any registered flax-growing premises in respect of which the Minister has, under the power in that behalf conferred on him by this Act, refrained from fixing a quota for such sale season;
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(c) the Minister may, if he so thinks proper, refrain from paying flax bounty in any particular sale season to a registered proprietor of registered flax-growing premises who has failed to make, in accordance with this Act, any return which he was required, by or under this Act, to make during the year in which such sale season commenced;
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(d) the Minister may, if he so thinks proper, refrain from paying flax bounty on any flax which was scutched in scutch-milling premises to which it was not lawful under this Act to send such flax for scutching.
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(3) Where the amount of flax bounty payable in respect of scutched flax which was grown in any particular registered flax-growing premises is less than fifty pounds and there is, at the time when such flax bounty is payable, no living person registered as the proprietor of such premises, the Minister may pay such flax bounty to such person or among such persons as appears or appear to him to be the occupier or occupiers of such premises, and, where there are two or more such persons, in such proportions as he thinks proper, and the receipt or other acknowledgment given by such person or persons to the Minister for such flax bounty so paid to him or them shall be a good discharge to the Minister for such flax bounty.
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(4) No scutched flax of which the ascertained value per stone is less than the minimum value per stone fixed under this Act and applicable in relation to such flax shall be reckoned in the calculation for the purposes of this section of the average ascertained value of the scutched flax.
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