Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938
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Levies on butter held in stock on certain dates. |
4.—(1) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, by order declare— | |
(a) that a specified date (in this sub-section referred to as the appointed date) shall be the appointed date for the purposes of such order, and | ||
(b) that there shall be paid to the Minister— | ||
(i) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader a levy, at the rate specified in such order in respect of creamery butter, on all creamery butter held by or on behalf of such registered proprietor or butter trader anywhere on the appointed date, and | ||
(ii) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader a levy, at the rate specified in such order in respect of non-creamery butter, on all non-creamery butter held by or on behalf of such registered proprietor or butter trader anywhere on the appointed date. | ||
(2) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall have the force of law. | ||
(3) Every levy under this section shall become due and payable on the seventh day after the day on which the order imposing such levy was made. | ||
(4) Sections 21 and 23 of the Principal Act shall apply in respect of any levy under this section with and subject to the following modifications, that is to say:— | ||
(a) references in the said sections to Part III of the Principal Act shall be construed as references to this section, | ||
(b) references to a levy month shall be construed as references to the date which is declared by the order imposing such levy to be the appointed date for the purposes of such order. | ||
(5) All moneys from time to time received by the Minister on foot of any levy under this section shall be paid into the dairy produce (price stabilisation) fund. | ||
(6) In this section— | ||
the expression “registered proprietor” means a person who is the registered proprietor of premises registered in either the register of butter factories kept in pursuance of the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 (No. 58 of 1924), or the register of non-manufacturing exporters kept in pursuance of the same Act; | ||
the expression “butter trader” means a person (not being a person registered in the register of creameries kept in pursuance of the last-mentioned Act) who is a butter trader within the meaning of the Dairy Produce Act, 1931 (No. 29 of 1931). |