Flax Act, 1936

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Obligation to send flax to specified scutch-mill.

14.—(1) Save as is otherwise provided by this section it shall not be lawful for the registered proprietor of registered flax-growing premises to send flax grown on such premises for scutching to any scutch-milling premises except either the scutch-milling premises specified in the return made in that behalf under this Act in respect of such flax or such other scutch-milling premises as shall be specially authorised for that purpose by the Minister.

(2) The Minister may, whenever he so thinks fit, require the registered proprietor of registered flax-growing premises to send flax grown on such premises for scutching to specified scutch-milling premises, and every such registered proprietor shall, on being required so to do, send flax grown on flax-growing premises of which he is the registered proprietor for scutching to the scutch-milling premises so specified by the Minister.

(3) Every registered proprietor of registered flax-growing premises who shall send any flax grown on such premises for scutching to any scutch-milling premises in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five shillings for every stone of flax so sent.