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Prohibition of unlicensed acquisition or establishment of creameries.
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13.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person—
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(a) to acquire by purchase or otherwise a creamery which at the time of such acquisition is being worked and carried on as a creamery, or
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(b) to establish a creamery in any premises in which the business of a creamery is not being carried on at the time of such establishment,
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unless such acquisition or establishment is done by such person under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf granted to such person by the Minister under this section.
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(2) It shall not be lawful for any person to maintain a creamery which was acquired or established by him or any other person in contravention of this section.
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(3) The Minister may, if he so thinks fit, grant to any person a licence to acquire a specified creamery then being worked and carried on as a creamery or a licence to establish a creamery in any specified premises and the Minister may attach to any such licence such conditions as he shall think proper and shall specify in such licence.
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(4) If any person acquires, establishes, or maintains a creamery in contravention of this section he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during which such offence is continued.
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(5) Where the business of a creamery is extended by the addition thereto of a class, branch, or department of creamery business not then carried on in such creamery, such class, branch, or department of business shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to be a separate creamery, and this section shall apply thereto accordingly.
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(6) For the purposes of this section the establishment of a creamery by a person shall be deemed to take place when such creamery is opened by such person for the carrying on of creamery business therein.
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