Pigs and Bacon Act, 1937

Payments to licensees and registered minor curers in respect of bacon.

71.—(1) The Board may, at the expiration of any period, commencing on or after the appointed day, which the Board may from time to time appoint for the purposes of this section, pay, out of the Pigs Marketing Fund, to each person, who during such period or any part thereof was a licensee or a registered minor curer, in respect of any bacon (being bacon produced by him) which, during such period, was either sold in Saorstát Eireann or exported a sum calculated by reference to the weight of such bacon and at such rate as the Board thinks proper.

(2) Where the Board is authorised under this section to make payments in respect of bacon, the Board may for the purposes of making such payments fix different rates in respect of different grades of bacon, and in respect of bacon which is exported, and bacon which is not exported, and may in respect of bacon which is exported fix different rates in respect of different countries.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (6) of section 147 of the Principal Act, moneys received under the said section 147 may be used by the Board for the purposes of making payments under this present section.