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Information from saw-millers.
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63.—(1) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, serve on any person (being the proprietor of any sawmill or factory in which timber is sawn or converted from the round or rough state) a notice requiring that person to furnish to the Minister, within twenty-eight days after the service of such notice, a return containing such particulars, in relation to the source of supply, volume and variety of timber so sawn or converted during a specified period at such sawmill or factory, as may be specified in the notice.
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(2) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, serve on any person (who is an exporter of timber in the round or rough state) a notice requiring that person to furnish to the Minister, within twenty-eight days after the service of such notice a return containing such particulars in relation to the source of supply, volume and variety of such timber exported by him during a specified period, as may be specified in the notice.
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(3) A notice under this section may require any return to be made thereunder to be in a form specified in the notice.
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(4) If any person upon whom a notice is served under this section fails or refuses to comply with the notice, that person shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
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(5) Where—
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(a) a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (4) of this section by reason of his failure or neglect to do the things specified in a notice served on him under this section within the time specified in the notice, and
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(b) the said things remain, after the date of such conviction, undone by him,
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such person shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds for each day, after the date of such first-mentioned conviction, on which the said things remain undone by him, and such offence shall be a continuing offence and accordingly fresh proceedings in respect thereof may be taken from time to time.
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