PIGS AND BACON ACT, 1935

• (10) For the purposes of this section each of the following periods shall be deemed to be a half-year, that is to say:—

• (a) the period commencing on the date of the establishment of the Board and ending on the 31st day of December, 1935;

• (b) any period of six months commencing, after the date of the establishment of the Board, on any 1st day of January or 1st day of July.

151 Returns by licensees and registered minor curers to Pigs Marketing Board.

151.—(1) The Board may by order make regulations in relation to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—

• (a) the returns (including returns in relation to any period or periods commencing before the date of such regulations, but not earlier than the 1st day of January, 1934) to be made to the Board by holders of licences and registered minor curers;

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

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

• (2) 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, or who makes in any such return any statement which is false or misleading in any material respect shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence under this section, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence under this section, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.

152 Records under Part IV.

152.—(1) Every licensee under a licence and every registered minor curer shall keep or cause to be kept, in the case of a licence, at the premises to which his licence relates and, in the case of a registered minor curer, at the premises in respect of which he is registered in the register of minor curers, the prescribed records in the prescribed form and shall make or cause to be made in every such record the prescribed entries within the prescribed time.

• (2) Every record kept in pursuance of this section may be inspected at any time during office hours by an authorised officer of the Pigs Marketing Board, and it shall be the duty of the person liable under this section to keep such record to produce for the inspection of such authorised officer on demand such record and also all invoices, consignment notes, receipts and other documents (including copies thereof where the originals are not available) reasonably demanded by such authorised officer for the purpose of verifying any entry in or explaining any omission from such record.

• (3) If any person—

• (a) fails to keep or cause to be kept such record as is required by this section to be kept or caused to be kept by him; or

• (b) fails to make or cause to be made in such record within the time appointed by this section any entry required by this section to be made by him therein; or

• (c) fails to produce or cause to be produced for inspection by an authorised officer of the Pigs Marketing Board on demand any record, document, or copy of a document which he is required by this section to produce or obstructs any such authorised officer in the making of such inspection; or

• (d) makes or causes to be made in such record any entry which is false or misleading in any material particular;

he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

• (4) For the purposes of this section—

• (a) inspection of a record or document shall include taking copies thereof or extracts therefrom; and

• (b) a demand for an inspection of a record required by this section to be kept at any premises or of any other document reasonably demanded by an authorised officer of the Pigs Marketing Board under this section for the purpose of verifying any entry in, or explaining any omission from, such record shall be deemed to have been duly made to the person liable under this section to keep such record if such demand is made verbally at such premises to any individual in the employment of such person; and

• (c) a refusal or failure to produce a record required by this section to be kept at any premises or of any other document reasonably demanded by an authorised officer of the Pigs Marketing Board under this section for the purpose of verifying any entry in, or any omission from, such record, if made or committed at such premises by an individual in the employment of the person liable under this section to produce such record or account, shall be deemed to have been made or committed by such person.

153 Regulations by the Pigs Marketing Board.

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

154 Prosecutions under Part IV.

154.—(1) Any offence under any section contained in this Part of this Act may be prosecuted by, or at the suit of, the Board as prosecutor.

• (2) Proceedings for an offence under any section contained in this Part of this Act shall not be instituted except by, or with the consent of, the Board.