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Returns.
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5.—(1) The Minister may serve a notice in writing on any registered proprietor or butter trader requiring him to make to the Minister within three days after the service of such notice a return of the amount of butter held anywhere by such proprietor or trader or on his behalf on a date mentioned in such notice, being a date declared by an order under the next preceding section to be the appointed date for the purposes of such order.
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(2) A return under this section shall be made in such form and shall contain such particulars as are specified in regulations made by the Minister for the purposes of this section (which he is hereby authorised to make).
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(3) If any person on whom a notice is served under this section either refuses to make a return in accordance with such notice or makes a return which to his knowledge is false or misleading in any material respect, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
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(4) A notice under this section may be served by delivering it to the person to whom it is addressed or by leaving it with a person over the age of sixteen years at the premises where the person to whom it is addressed carries on business or by sending it by registered post to the person to whom it is addressed at the premises where he carries on business.
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(5) Every offence under this section may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister.
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