Number 23/1937: PIGS AND BACON ACT, 1937

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Number 23 of 1937.

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PIGS AND BACON ACT, 1937.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I

Preliminary and General

Section
1.	Short title and citation.
2.	Definitions generally.
3.	Application of section 3 of the Principal Act.
4.	Cancellation of registration of minor curers and revocation of licences.
5.	Expenses of the Minister.

PART II

Amendment of Part II of the Principal Act

6.	Amendment of definition of “preliminary period”.
7.	Amendment of section 14 of the Principal Act.
8.	Amendment of section 24 of the Principal Act.
9.	Amendment of section 72 of the Principal Act.
10.	Obligation of licensee to present bacon for examination by veterinary examiners and consequential amendments of the Principal Act.

PART III

Amendment of Part III of the Principal Act

11.	Definition for purposes of Part III.
12.	Appointed day for purposes of Part III.
13.	Elections of ordinary members of the Bacon Marketing Board to be held biennially in lieu of triennially.
14.	Increase of number of members of the Bacon Marketing Board.
15.	Amendment of section 92 of the Principal Act.
16.	Application of section 92 of the Principal Act to orders made under Part III of this Act.
17.	Amendment of section 95 of the Principal Act.
18.	Application of section 97 of the Principal Act.
19.	Amendment of section 98 of the Principal Act.
20.	Cesser of sections 99, 100 and 101 of the Principal Act.
21.	Production sub-quotas for licensed premises.
22.	Increase of production quotas and consequential increase of production sub-quotas.
23.	Penalty for under-production of bacon.
24.	Penalty for over-production of bacon.
25.	Method of calculating for the purposes of this Part of this Act, the quantity of bacon produced during a production period.
26.	Cesser of sections 103 and 104 of the Principal Act.
27.	Home-sales sub-quotas for licensed premises.
28.	Increase of sales quotas and consequential increase of home-sales sub-quotas.
29.	Penalty for consigning bacon in excess of home-sales sub-quota.
30.	External-sales quotas.
31.	External-sales sub-quotas for licensed premises.
32.	Increase of external-sales quotas and consequential increase of external-sales sub-quotas for licensed premises.
33.	Penalty for failure to export bacon up to amount of external-sales sub-quota.
34.	Penalty for exporting bacon in excess of external-sales sub-quota.
35.	Amendment of section 114 of the Principal Act.
36.	Application of section 115 of the Principal Act.
37.	Validity of orders of the Bacon Marketing Board.
38.	Evidence.
39.	Payments by the Bacon Marketing Board to certain former curers.
40.	Surrender of licences by licensees in consideration of payments by the Bacon Marketing Board.

PART IV

Amendment of Part IV of the Principal Act

41.	Definitions for purposes of Part IV.
42.	The appointed day for purposes of Part IV.
43.	Elections of curer members of the Pigs Marketing Board and nominations of producer members of the said Board to be held and made biennially in lieu of triennially.
44.	Application of section 118 of the Principal Act.
45.	Amendment of section 120 of the Principal Act.
46.	Amendment of section 121 of the Principal Act.
47.	Amendment of section 127 of the Principal Act.
48.	Determination of questions by the Pigs Marketing Board.
49.	Amendment of section 137 of the Principal Act.
50.	Application of section 139 of the Principal Act.
51.	Cesser of power of making orders under section 140 of the Principal Act.
52.	Exclusion of certain kinds of pigs.
53.	Method of ascertaining weight of carcases of pigs.
54.	Classification and grading of pigs and carcases.
55.	Appointed price orders.
56.	Freight allowance.
57.	Buying allowance.
58.	Insurance allowance.
59.	Damage allowance.
60.	Restriction on price of pigs and carcases.
61.	Provisions in relation to pigs sold at licensed premises.
62.	Sale certificates.
63.	Marking of carcases.
64.	Amendment of section 145 of the Principal Act.
65.	Amendment of section 146 of the Principal Act.
66.	Weekly returns by licensees of proposed slaughtering of pigs.
67.	Tenders of pigs by producers.
68.	Sale orders.
69.	Hypothetical price orders.
70.	Levies payable by licensees and registered minor curers.
71.	Payments to licensees and registered minor curers in respect of bacon.
72.	Amendment of section 147 of the Principal Act.
73.	Amendment of section 148 of the Principal Act.
74.	Amendment of section 149 of the Principal Act.
75.	Amendment of section 153 of the Principal Act.
76.	Application of section 154 of the Principal Act.
77.	Validity of orders of the Pigs Marketing Board.
78.	Evidence.

Acts Referred to
Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935	No. 24 of 1935
Agricultural Produce (Regulation of Export) Act, 1933	No. 26 of 1933
Agricultural Products (Regulation of Export) (Amendment) Act, 1935	No. 15 of 1935

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Number 23 of 1937.

PIGS AND BACON ACT, 1937.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PIGS AND BACON ACT, 1935 , TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPOSITION OF LEVIES ON PIGS AND CARCASES OF PIGS PURCHASED BY BACON PRODUCERS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [12th June, 1937.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—