Dairy Produce Marketing Act, 1961

Amendment of Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938.

58.—(1) In this section “the Act of 1938” means the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938.

(2) Section 1 of the Act of 1938 is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of “the suspendable provisions” of the following definition:

“‘the suspendable provisions’ means the provisions of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Acts, 1935 to 1956, other than sections 1 to 3 of this Act”.

(3) An order under section 2 or section 3 of the Act of 1938 may relate to one or more than one of the suspendable provisions, and where an order does not relate to all the suspendable provisions, the references in those sections to the suspendable provisions shall, in relation to the order, be construed as references to the provision or provisions, as the case may be, to which the order relates and the said sections shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

(4) Section 3 of the Act of 1938 is hereby amended by—

(a) the insertion in subsection (3) after “reviving order” of “in relation to section 11 of the Principal Act”, and

(b) the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4):

“(4) Whenever the Minister makes a reviving order in relation to any paragraph or paragraphs (other than paragraph (a)) of subsection (1) of section 17 of the Principal Act, he may by such order fix a day to be the appointed day for the purposes of that paragraph or those paragraphs, as the case may be, and references to the appointed day in that paragraph or those paragraphs, as the case may be, shall, in relation to any period during which the suspend able provisions are in force by virtue of the order, be construed as references to the day so fixed.”