Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933
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Prohibition of carrying on businesses of purchasing home-grown wheat for re-sale, maize milling, and manufacturing compound feeding stuffs by unregistered persons. |
62.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to carry on the business of purchasing home-grown wheat for re-sale unless— | |
(a) such person is a registered wheat dealer, and | ||
(b) such business is carried on at premises in respect of which such person is registered in the register of wheat dealers. | ||
(2) It shall not be lawful for any person to mill maize unless either— | ||
(a) (i) such person is a registered maize miller, and | ||
(ii) such maize is milled at premises in respect of which such person is registered in the register of maize millers; or | ||
(b) such person is the Minister for Agriculture; or | ||
(c) such maize is milled under and in accordance with a licence granted under this section. | ||
(3) The Minister for Agriculture may by licence authorise any person who is not a registered maize miller subject to compliance with such conditions as he thinks fit to impose to mill at any premises specified in such licence maize either, as the said Minister thinks proper, without limit as to time or quantity or either of them or within a specified time or in a specified quantity. | ||
(4) It shall not be lawful for any person to manufacture any compound feeding stuff unless— | ||
(a) such person is a registered manufacturer of compound feeding stuffs; and | ||
(b) such compound feeding stuff is manufactured— | ||
(i) under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Minister for Agriculture under this section, and | ||
(ii) at premises in respect of which such person is registered in the register of manufacturers of compound feeding stuffs. | ||
(5) The Minister for Agriculture may, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, grant to any registered manufacturer of compound feeding stuffs a licence authorising him, subject to such conditions as the Minister for Agriculture may think fit to impose, to manufacture any specified compound feeding stuff either, as the said Minister thinks proper, without limit as to time or quantity or either of them or within a specified time or in a specified quantity. | ||
(6) If any person acts in contravention of this section such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part II of the First Schedule to this Act. | ||
(7) An offence under this section may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister for Agriculture as prosecutor. | ||
(8) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the operation of the Control of Manufactures Act, 1932 (No. 21 of 1932). |