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Power of county council to provide seeds and fertilisers.
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2.—(1) Where the council of a county has provided or shall provide, on or after the 1st day of February, 1939, and before the 31st day of July, 1939, or on or after the 1st day of February, 1940, and before the 31st day of July, 1940, a supply of seeds and fertilisers or of seeds only or of fertilisers only for distribution in such county or in any particular portion thereof, it shall be and be deemed always to have been lawful for such council to sell any of the seeds and fertilisers or seeds or fertilisers (as the case may be) so provided to any occupier or cultivator of land in such county or such particular portion thereof, and every such provision or sale made before the passing of this Act shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been made under this Act and references in this Act to the provision or to the sale of goods by the council of a county and to the purchase of goods from the council of a county shall be construed accordingly.
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(2) Whenever the council of a county has sold or shall sell under this Act any goods to any person, the sum payable by such person to such council in respect of such sale shall carry interest at such rate per cent. per annum as may be fixed in that behalf by such council, notwithstanding that no agreement to pay interest was made at the time of such sale.
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(3) Whenever the council of a county has in the year 1939 provided and sold under this Act seeds and fertilisers or either of them, such council may ascertain the total amount of the costs and expenses (other than the price paid by such council for such seeds and fertilisers or seeds or fertilisers, as the case may be) incurred by such council in respect of the provision and all sales of such goods and may apportion such amount amongst the several persons to whom such goods were so sold and thereupon the sum so apportioned to any such person shall be added to and form and be deemed always to have formed part of the sum owing to such council by such person in respect of the sale so made to such person and shall be recoverable under this Act accordingly, notwithstanding that no agreement for the payment of such sum was made at the time of such sale.
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(4) Whenever the council of a county has, in the year 1940, provided and sold under this Act seeds and fertilisers or either of them, such council may ascertain the total amount of the costs and expenses (other than the price paid by such council for such seeds and fertilisers or seeds or fertilisers, as the case may be) incurred by such council in respect of the provision and all sales of such goods and may apportion such amount amongst the several persons to whom such goods were so sold and thereupon the sum so apportioned to any such person shall be added to and form and be deemed always to have formed part of the sum owing to such council by such person in respect of the sale so made to such person and shall be recoverable under this Act accordingly, notwithstanding that no agreement for the payment of such sum was made at the time of such sale.
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(5) Any sum owing to the council of a county in respect of any sale under this Act of any goods (including the interest and proportion of costs and expenses payable by virtue of this section) shall be paid to such council, at the option of such council, either at the time and in the manner agreed on at the time of such sale or by two equal instalments payable on the respective dates appointed for the purpose by such council, and in either case may be collected and recovered in the manner authorised by this Act.
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