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Power to require registered proprietor to purchase cattle, etc., only from the Minister.
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10.—(1) The Minister may, if and whenever he so thinks fit, serve on any particular registered proprietor a notice (in this section referred to as a prohibitory notice) in writing in the prescribed form prohibiting such registered proprietor, on and after a day (not less than fourteen days after the service of such notice on such registered proprietor) named in such notice, from purchasing or otherwise acquiring any cattle or sheep from any person except an officer of the Minister authorised in that behalf by the Minister and from purchasing or otherwise acquiring for the purposes of his business as such registered proprietor any meat from any person whatever.
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(2) Whenever the Minister serves a prohibitory notice on a registered proprietor, the Minister shall consider any representations made within seven days after the service of such notice by such registered proprietor.
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(3) Whenever the Minister serves a prohibitory notice on a registered proprietor, the Minister shall make such arrangements as he shall think proper for making such supply of cattle and sheep as such registered proprietor shall reasonably require for the purposes of his business available for purchase by such registered proprietor from an officer of the Minister authorised in that behalf by the Minister.
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(4) All cattle and sheep sold under this section by an officer of the Minister to a registered proprietor shall be so sold at such price and upon such terms as the Minister shall from time to time direct.
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(5) When the Minister has served a prohibitory notice on a registered proprietor, the Minister may, if and when he thinks proper, serve on such registered proprietor a notice (in this section referred to as a withdrawal notice) in writing in the prescribed form withdrawing such prohibitory notice as on and from a day named in such withdrawal notice.
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(6) When a prohibitory notice has been served on a registered proprietor, it shall not be lawful for such registered proprietor, on or after the day named in this behalf in such prohibitory notice and before the withdrawal of such prohibitory notice by a withdrawal notice, to purchase or otherwise acquire any cattle or sheep from any person other than an officer of the Minister authorised in that behalf by the Minister or to purchase or otherwise acquire any meat from any person whatever.
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(7) Every registered proprietor who shall purchase or otherwise acquire any cattle or sheep or any meat in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first such offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent such offence, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
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(8) A notice under this section may be served on a registered proprietor by being sent by prepaid registered post addressed to such registered proprietor at the registered premises or any of the registered premises of which he is the registered proprietor.
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