Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep (Amendment) Act, 1935
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Amendment of Part IX of the Principal Act by substitution of sale for free distribution. |
19.—(1) The Minister may by order appoint a day to be the appointed day for the purposes of this section and accordingly in this section the expression “the appointed day” means the day so appointed. | |
(2) On the appointed day, Part IX of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, in so far as it is an enactment providing for the distribution of beef free of charge to recipients, shall cease to have effect, and the said Part IX as so amended shall, on the appointed day, become and be an enactment providing for the sale of beef to recipients at a price calculated at the prescribed rate per pound, and shall be construed and have effect accordingly. | ||
(3) For the purpose of giving full effect to the next preceding sub-section of this section, the following provisions shall have effect on and after the appointed day, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the word “supply” wherever it occurs in Part IX of the Principal Act (as amended by this Act) as a verb shall, in relation to the supply of beef to recipients, be construed and have effect as if it were defined as meaning “supply by means of a sale to and purchase by recipients at a price calculated at the prescribed rate per pound,” and all cognate words (including the said word when used as a noun) occurring in the said Part IX as so amended in the relation aforesaid shall be construed and have effect accordingly; | ||
(b) the word “obtain” wherever it occurs in the said Part IX as so amended shall be construed as meaning obtain by purchase at a price calculated at the prescribed rate per pound, and cognate words shall be construed accordingly; | ||
(c) references in the said Part IX as so amended to the price payable or to be paid by the Minister to a registered proprietor of registered victualling premises for beef supplied under the said Part IX as so amended by such registered proprietor to recipients shall be construed as referring to the price so payable or to be paid in addition to the price paid in pursuance of the said Part IX as so amended to such registered proprietor for such beef by the recipients thereof; | ||
(d) the several sections and sub-sections of the Principal Act mentioned in the first column of the Schedule to this Act shall be and are hereby respectively amended in the manner stated in the second column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such section or sub-section in the said first column. | ||
(4) Regulations prescribing the rate per pound at which the price payable (under Part IX of the Principal Act as amended by this Act) by recipients for beef is to be calculated shall not be made without the consent of the Minister for Finance. |