Pigs and Bacon Act, 1937

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Appointed price orders.

55.—(1) The Board shall, before the end of the sale period current on the appointed day, and may thereafter, whenever and so often as it thinks fit, make an order (in this Part of this Act referred to as an appointed price order)—

(a) appointing the date (not being later in the case of the first order than the date of the expiration of the said sale period, nor earlier in any case than the Monday next following the date of such order) on which such order is to come into force; and

(b) fixing, in respect of non-factory-purchased pigs of each class sold during the currency of such order, the price (in terms of a rate per hundredweight live weight) thereof; and

(c) fixing, in respect of carcases of factory-purchased pigs of each grade of each graded class sold during the currency of such order, the price (in terms of a rate per hundredweight) thereof; and

(d) fixing, in respect of carcases of factory-purchased pigs of each non-graded class sold during the currency of such order, the price (in terms of a rate per hundredweight) thereof; and

(e) fixing, in respect of carcases of non-factory-purchased pigs of each class sold during the currency of such order, the price (in terms of a rate per hundredweight) thereof.

(2) Every appointed price order shall come into force on the date appointed in that behalf by such order and shall remain in force until the next subsequent appointed price order comes into force, and references in this Act to the currency of an appointed price order shall be construed as references to the period during which such order is in force.

(3) The Board may at any time by order (in this Part of this Act referred to as an appointed price (amending) order) amend an appointed price order and every order made under this section (including this sub-section) shall specify the date (not being earlier than the Monday next following the date on which such order is made) on which such order is to come into force.

(4) In making an appointed price order or an appointed price (amending) order the Board shall have regard to the following matters, namely—

(a) the capacity of the markets (both home and export) for bacon;

(b) the quantity of bacon which the Board anticipates is required to be placed in cold storage against future requirements;

(c) the stock of bacon on hands;

(d) the supply of pigs likely to be available;

(e) the cost of production of pigs and particularly the cost of feeding stuffs for the previous four months;

(f) such other matters as the Board considers relevant.

(5) Sub-section (2) of section 134 of the Principal Act shall apply in respect of the making of the first appointed price order.

(6) So much of sub-section (1) of this section as requires the Board when making an appointed price order to appoint the price of each class of carcases of non-factory-purchased pigs shall cease to have effect in relation to any such order which is to come into force on or after the 1st day of April, 1938, and for the purposes of this section any price order in force on the 31st day of March, 1938, shall be deemed, but so far only as it relates to prices of classes of carcases of non-factory-purchased pigs, to cease to be current on the 1st day of April, 1938.