Turf (Use and Development) Act, 1936

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Prohibition of purchase of coal from unregistered coal retailer.

13.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to purchase in an appointed area any coal from a coal retailer who carries on, in that appointed area, the business of selling coal by retail unless such coal retailer is registered in the register kept in pursuance of this Act in respect of that appointed area.

(2) Every person who purchases any coal in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one pound for every ton or part of a ton of coal so purchased.