Special Committee Pigs and Bacon Bill, 1934 debate -
Thursday, 4 Apr 1935

SECTION 24.

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(3) Where—

(a) an application is made, after the expiration of the preliminary period and within one month after such expiration, for a licence in respect of any premises, and

(b) the applicant was, immediately before such expiration, registered in the register of minor curers in respect of such premises, and

(c) the applicant satisfies the Minister that he manufactured at such premises, during each of the following periods, namely, the first twelve months of the preliminary period and the remainder of the preliminary period, not less than two thousand two hundred hundredweights of bacon,

the Minister shall, subject however to the provisions of sub-sections (6) and (7) of this section, grant such application.

Minister for Agriculture

I move amendment No. 14 :—

In sub-section (3), paragraph (c), page 15, line 2, to insert after the word " during " the words " not less than forty-five weeks in."

The object of this amendment is to bring this section into conformity with other parts of the Bill. I do not think there is any particular objection to it.

Amendment agreed to.

Minister for Agriculture

I move amendment No. 15 :—

At the end of the section to insert a new sub-section as follows :—

(10) Where—

(a) premises are used exclusively for the business of slaughtering pigs ; and

(b) other premises situate within one mile from such first-mentioned premises are used for the manufacture of bacon from the carcases of pigs slaughtered at such first-mentioned premises :

both such premises shall be deemed for the purposes of sub-section (2) of this section to be one set of premises.

This amendment is the same as amendment No. 13, covering premises not being exactly the same building as the curing premises.

Amendment agreed to.

Section 24, as amended, agreed to.

Deputy Belton

Before we pass on to the next section, I should like to ask the Minister what is the effect of amendment No. 14 ?

Minister for Agriculture

As the Bill stands at present, minor bacon curers, in order to qualify as bacon curers, must have been in business during the year 1934 for 45 weeks and must have manufactured not less than 2,200 cwts. of bacon. In order to become licensees after two years they must do more than 2,200 cwts. and also they must work for 45 weeks. Otherwise, it is possible to conceive that some of the big curers might have an interest in the small fellow and come along and say to him that they would help him to do the work for a few weeks.

Section 24, as amended, agreed to.

Sections 25, 26 and 27 agreed to.

Chairman

The next amendment, No. 16, is governed by amendment No. 8.

Amendment No. 16 not moved.

Section 28, as amended, agreed to.

Section 29 agreed to.