Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935
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Provision of storage accommodation and drying plant by holders of milling licences. |
7.—(1) The Minister with the consent of the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, before the commencement of any cereal year, make an order (in this Act referred to as a home-grown wheat (storage and drying plant) order) requiring each person who is the holder of a milling licence in respect of a mill, which is a licensed mill at the commencement of such cereal year and the quota for which for such cereal year exceeds a specified amount of wheat, to provide in relation to such mill before the commencement of such cereal year stores of a capacity sufficient to accommodate a specified proportion of the home-grown wheat quota for such mill in respect of such year and drying plant capable of drying grain at the rate of a specified quantity per day of twenty-four hours in respect of every hundred tons of such home-grown wheat quota, to use such accommodation for such specified proportion, and to use such drying plant for drying so much of such home-grown wheat quota as requires drying. | |
(2) Where a home-grown wheat (storage and drying plant) order has been made in respect of any cereal year, the Minister may, before the commencement of such cereal year, serve on the holder of a milling licence in respect of a mill, who is required by such order to provide stores and drying plant, a notice directing that such stores and drying plant shall be provided (as may be specified) at such mill or at some other specified place or within a specified distance from such mill. | ||
(3) Where | ||
(a) a home-grown wheat (storage and drying plant) order has been made, and | ||
(b) either— | ||
(i) the holder of a milling licence fails or neglects to comply with such order so far as the same relates to him, or | ||
(ii) the holder of a milling licence upon whom a notice under the immediately preceding sub-section has been served fails or neglects to comply with such notice, | ||
such holder shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part 1 of the First Schedule to this Act. |