Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933

Returns to be furnished by registered persons (other than wheat growers).

55.—(1) The Minister for Industry and Commerce may by order make regulations in relation to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) the returns to be made to him by registered flour importers and registered distillers;

(b) the times at which such returns are to be made;

(c) the forms in which such returns are to be made.

(2) The Minister for Agriculture may by order make regulations in relation to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) the returns to be made to him by registered wheat importers, registered wheat dealers, registered maize millers, registered maize importers and registered manufacturers of compound feeding stuffs;

(b) the times at which such returns are to be made;

(c) the forms in which such returns are to be made.

(3) Every person required by regulations made under this section to make any return who fails or refuses to make such return in accordance in all respects with such regulations shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part II of the First Schedule to this Act.

(4) An offence under this section by a registered flour importer or registered distiller may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister for Industry and Commerce as prosecutor.

(5) An offence under this section by a registered wheat importer, a registered wheat dealer, a registered maize miller, a registered maize importer, or a registered manufacturer of compound feeding stuffs may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister for Agriculture as prosecutor.