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7 1933

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (CEREALS) ACT, 1933

PART VI.

Restrictions on Sale of Maize, Maize Meal and Maize Meal Mixture.

“The Minister” in Part VI.

77. —In this Part of this Act the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Agriculture.

Regulations under Part VI.

78. —The Minister may by order make regulations in relation to any matter or thing referred to in this Part of this Act as prescribed.

Prosecution of offences under Part VI.

79. —Any offence under any section in this Part of this Act may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister as prosecutor.

Restrictions on sale of maize.

80. —(1) It shall not be lawful for a registered maize importer—

(a) if he is also a registered maize miller, to sell maize to any person; or

(b) in any other case, to sell maize to any person, other than another registered maize importer, or a registered maize miller or the Minister,

unless such maize is sold under and in accordance with a licence granted to him by the Minister and is so sold to a person to whom a licence to purchase maize has been granted by the Minister.

(2) It shall not be lawful for a registered maize miller to sell any maize unless under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Minister.

(3) The Minister may attach to any licence granted under this section such conditions as he thinks fit and may revoke such licence at any time.

(4) If any person acts in contravention of this section such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part III of the First Schedule to this Act.

Restrictions or sale of maize meal.

81. —(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to sell any maize meal unless either—

(a) all the following conditions are complied with, that is to say:—

(i) such maize meal is intended for human consumption, and

(ii) such maize meal is sold in a package secured in the prescribed manner, and

(iii) the weight of maize meal in such package does not exceed the prescribed weight or, if no weight is for the time being prescribed, one stone, or

(b) in case such maize meal is sold wholesale by a registered maize miller such maize meal is sold under and in accordance with, a licence granted by the Minister, or

(c) such maize meal (being the entire product of grinding maize) forms part of a maize meal mixture or of a compound feeding stuff one of the component parts of which is a maize meal mixture.

(2) The Minister may attach to any licence granted under this section such conditions as he thinks fit and may revoke such licence at any time.

(3) If any person acts in contravention of this section such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act.

Conditions relating to sale of maize meal mixtures by registered maize millers.

82. —(1) It shall not be lawful for any registered maize miller to sell or offer for sale any maize meal mixture unless such maize meal mixture complies with the following specifications, that is to say:—

(a) oats (if any) included therein is, if an order under sub-section (3) of this section is not then in force, in one or other of the following forms, that is to say, the entire product derived from grinding oats or the entire product derived from grinding the kernels only of oats, or, if any such order is then in force, in the form required by such order;

(b) the amount by weight of oats (if any) included therein in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oats does not exceed the prescribed percentage of such maize meal mixture;

(c) in case such maize meal mixture does not include any oats or includes any oats in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oats, the amount by weight of the product derived from grinding maize included therein does not exceed the prescribed percentage of such maize meal mixture;

(d) in case such maize meal mixture includes any oats in the form of the entire product derived from grinding the kernels only of oats, the amount by weight of the product derived from grinding maize included therein does not exceed the appropriate prescribed percentage of such maize meal mixture.

(2) The Minister in making regulations in relation to the percentage referred to in paragraph (d) of the immediately preceding sub-section as prescribed shall, by reference to the quantity of oats contained in maize meal mixtures to which the said paragraph (d) applies, divide such maize meal mixtures into such and so many classes as he may think proper, and shall prescribe different percentages in respect of different classes, and the percentage so prescribed in respect of any such class shall for the purposes of the said paragraph (d) be the appropriate prescribed percentage in relation to every maize meal mixture which belongs to such class.

(3) The Minister may from time to time by order require any oats included in a maize meal mixture to be in the form of the entire product derived from grinding the kernels only of oats.

(4) The Minister may by order revoke any order previously made by him under the immediately preceding sub-section.

(5) If any registered maize miller acts in contravention of this section such registered maize miller shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act.

Provisions in relation to sale of maize meal mixture.

83. —(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to sell or offer for sale any maize meal mixture unless the following conditions are complied with, that is to say:—

(a) such maize meal mixture is contained in a package, and

(b) if the weight of maize meal mixture is one hundred weight or more, there is indicated in the prescribed manner on such package particulars of the percentage by weight of each of the component parts of such mixture.

(2) If any person acts in contravention of this section such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act.

Moisture and fibre in maize meal mixture.

84. —(1) It shall not be lawful for any registered maize miller to sell or offer for sale any maize meal mixture prepared by him which contains more than the prescribed percentage (if any) of moisture.

(2) It shall not be lawful for any registered maize miller to sell or offer for sale any maize meal mixture prepared by him which contains more than the prescribed percentage (if any) of fibre.

(3) If any person acts in contravention of this section such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part III of the First Schedule to this Act.