Milk (Regulation of Supply and Price) Act, 1936

Applications for registration.

31.—(1) Each of the following persons, that is to say:—

(a) a person who produces or proposes to produce milk on premises situate in a production district, or

(b) a person who produces milk on premises situate outside such production district and who, during the period of fifteen months ending on the date of the establishment of the board for the joint district which includes such production district, supplied, on not less than twenty days in each of any eight months in such period, milk to persons carrying on the business of selling milk in the associated sale district,

may, subject to the provisions of this section, apply (but, in the case of a person to whom paragraph (b) of this sub-section applies, not later than six months after the date of such establishment) to such board to be registered in the register of producers in respect of such premises.

(2) Any person who carries on or proposes to carry on at premises situate in a sale district the business of a retailer may, subject to the provisions of this section, apply to the board for the joint district which includes such sale district to be registered in the register of retailers in respect of such premises.

(3) Any person who carries on or proposes to carry on at premises situate in a sale district the business of a wholesaler may, subject to the provisions of this section, apply to the board for the joint district which includes such sale district to be registered in the register of wholesalers in respect of such premises.

(4) A person shall not be entitled to make an application to be registered, in respect of any premises, in any register kept by a board unless such person is registered in a register kept by a local authority in pursuance of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts, 1878 and 1886 or is registered in respect of such premises in the register of dairymen kept by a sanitary authority in pursuance of Part II of the Milk and Dairies Act, 1935 (No. 22 of 1935).

(5) Every application for registration in any register kept by a board shall—

(a) be made in the prescribed form and contain the prescribed particulars, and

(b) relate to one premises only.