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Minimum prices under the Corn Production Acts, 1917 and 1920, to be fixed in terms of hundred-weight.
10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 76.
7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 46.
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3.—(1) The corresponding minimum prices of wheat and oats to be fixed under section two of the Agriculture Act, 1920, shall be fixed in terms of the hundredweight of one hundred and twelve imperial standard pounds, and His Majesty may be Order in Council substitute for the minimum price of wheat and oats specified in section two of the Corn Production Act, 1917, and section two of the Agriculture Act, 1920, equivalent minimum prices expressed in terms of the hundredweight aforesaid.
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(2) The average price of wheat or oats for the purposes of Part I. of the Corn Production Act, 1917, shall be the average price computed with reference to the hundredweight aforesaid instead of the average price per quarter, and His Majesty may by Order in Council make such modifications in that Act as are necessary to adapt that Act to the provisions of the section.
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(3) All copies of the Corn Production Act, 1917, and of the Agriculture Act, 1920, printed after any Order in Council is made under this section shall be printed with the addition thereto, the omission therefrom, or the substitution therein of such words as are directed by the Order to be so added, omitted, or substituted, and that Act shall be construed as if it had at the time when the Order is made been enacted with the addition, omission, or substitution so directed to be made.
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