Pigs and Bacon (Amendment) Act, 1956

External-sales quotas.

9.—The following section shall be substituted for section 30 of the Act of 1937:

“30.—The Commission may, whenever and so often as they think it proper so to do, by order (in this Part of this Act referred to as an external-sales order)—

(a) appoint a specified period to be an external-sale period for the purposes of such order, and

(b) (i) appoint a specified quantity of bacon to be the external-sales quota in respect of that period, or

(ii) appoint in respect of that period an external-sales quota of bacon which shall be related, in such manner as the Commission think fit and specify in the order, to the quantity of bacon or of a particular type of bacon, defined in such manner as the Commission think fit and specify in the order, produced at licensed premises in a particular period, or

(iii) appoint in respect of that period an external-sales quota of bacon which shall be related, in such manner as the Commission think fit and specify in the order, to the number of pigs or of a particular type of pig, defined in such manner as the Commission think fit, slaughtered at licensed premises in a particular period, and

(c) require such bacon to be exported to any specified country, and

(d) specify requirements with which such bacon shall conform, and

(e) require the licensee in respect of licensed premises to furnish to the Commission, within a stated period, in respect of each consignment of bacon exported from the premises such documentary evidence as may be specified in the order.”