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Areas for compulsory supply of beef.
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45.—(1) Whenever the Minister is satisfied in respect of any particular area that it is for any reason not practicable to make under this Part of this Act a contract for such area with a registered proprietor of registered victualling premises for the free supply of beef to recipients, the Minister may with the consent of the Minister for Finance by order—
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(a) declare such area to be an appointed area for the purposes of this Act, and
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(b) require the registered proprietor of every registered victualling premises in such area, on demand made in accordance with this Act by a recipient, to supply free of charge to such recipient such quantity of beef of a specified kind and quality as shall be lawfully so demanded by such recipient, and
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(c) fix the maximum weekly quantity of such beef which each such registered proprietor shall be obliged so to supply to recipients, and
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(d) fix the price to be paid by the Minister to each such registered proprietor for the beef so supplied by such registered proprietor.
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(2) Whenever the Minister has made an order under the foregoing sub-section of this section, the area to which such order relates shall, so long as such order remains in force, be an appointed area for the purposes of this Act and the registered proprietor of every registered victualling premises in such area shall, so long as aforesaid, be bound to supply beef to recipients in accordance with such order and this Act.
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(3) In fixing, in an order made under this section, the several maximum weekly quantities of beef to be supplied to recipients in pursuance of such order by the respective registered proprietors of registered victualling premises in the area to which such order relates, the Minister shall have regard to the volume and character of victualling business done in each of such premises, to the intent that the obligations imposed by such order may be apportioned equitably amongst the registered victualling premises in such area.
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(4) The Minister may with the consent of the Minister for Finance at any time by order revoke or amend any order previously made by him under this section.
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