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Eggs acquisition fees.
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15.—(1) Every registered wholesaler shall pay to the Minister, in respect of every half year ending on the 30th day of June or the 31st day of December during which or during any part of which he is registered in the register of wholesalers, a fee (in this Act referred to as an eggs acquisition fee) calculated at the prescribed rate and in the prescribed manner on the total quantity of eggs acquired by him in such half year, other than eggs which are shown to the satisfaction of the Minister—
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(a) to have been acquired by him from another registered wholesaler, or
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(b) to have been unfit for human consumption or externally dirty and to have been disposed of in the manner required by this Act in respect of such eggs.
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(2) Every registered retailer shall pay to the Minister, in respect of every half year ending on the 30th day of June or the 31st day of December during which or during any part of which he is registered in the register of retailers, a fee (in this Act also referred to as an eggs acquisition fee) calculated at the prescribed rate and in the prescribed manner on the total quantity of eggs acquired by him from producers in such half year, other than eggs which are shown to the satisfaction of the Minister to have been unfit for human consumption or externally dirty and to have been disposed of in the manner required by this Act in respect of such eggs.
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(3) Save as is otherwise provided by the next following sub-section of this section, every eggs acquisition fee shall become due on the day after the last day of the half-year in respect of which it is payable, and shall be paid, in the case of every such fee which so becomes due on the 1st day of July in any year before the 1st day of September in that year or, in the case of every such fee which so becomes due on the 1st day of January in any year, before the 1st day of March in that year.
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(4) Where a registered wholesaler or a registered retailer ceases, during any half-year ending on the 30th day of June or the 31st day of December, to be registered in the register of wholesalers or the register of retailers (as the case may be), the eggs acquisition fee payable by him in respect of such half-year shall become due on the day after the day on which he ceases to be so registered, and shall be paid before the expiration of two months from the day on which it so becomes due.
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