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Compulsory purchase of bacon by the Bacon Marketing Board from licensees.
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107.—(1) Whenever the Board is of opinion that any bacon in the hands of a licensee (not being bacon kept in a cold store in pursuance of a cold-storage order) remains unsold owing to such licensee demanding an unreasonable price therefor, the Board may make an order (in this Part of this Act referred to as a purchase order) requiring such curer to sell to the Board at such price as may be specified in such order a quantity (to be specified in such order) of bacon equivalent to the quantity of such first-mentioned bacon and to deliver such quantity to a place and at a time specified in such order.
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(2) Whenever the Board makes a purchase order the Board may, not less than five days before the date appointed by such order for the delivery of the bacon specified in such order, serve on the person to whom such order relates a copy of such order.
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(3) Where—
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(a) a copy of a purchase order is duly served on a licensee, and
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(b) such licensee fails, neglects, or refuses to deliver to the Board at the time and place specified in such order the quantity of bacon specified in such order,
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such licensee shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine calculated at the rate of ten shillings for every hundredweight of bacon specified in such purchase order and not so delivered.
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(4) Where any bacon is duly delivered by a licensee to the Board in pursuance of a purchase order the Board shall pay to such licensee the price of such bacon specified in such order.
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