Turf (Use and Development) Act, 1936

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Application of this Act to sales of two hundred-weights or less of coal.

20.—Where a person (in this section referred to as a sub-retailer) carries on the business of buying coal from another person (in this section referred to as a merchant) and selling such coal by retail in quantities not exceeding two hundredweights (whether such sub-retailer does or does not pay such merchant the full retail price for such coal and whether such sub-retailer does or does not also sell such coal in quantities exceeding two hundredweights), the following provisions shall have effect in respect of all coal purchased by such sub-retailer from such merchant and sold by such sub-retailer by retail in quantities not exceeding two hundredweights for consumption for domestic or household purposes in an appointed area, that is to say:—

(a) such sub-retailer shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have purchased such coal from such merchant for consumption for domestic or household purposes in an appointed area, and

(b) such merchant shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have sold such coal to such sub-retailer by retail for consumption for domestic or household purposes in an appointed area, and

(c) this Act and, in particular, the provisions of this Act relating to the compulsory purchase of turf shall apply to such sub-retailer and to such merchant accordingly.