SECTION 134.
(1) Save as is otherwise provided by this section, every question arising at a meeting of the Board shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on the question, and in the case of an equal division of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
(2) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the making of a price order, an order amending a price order, or a freight allowance order at a meeting of the Board, that is to say:—
(a) if no ordinary members attend such meeting the Chairman shall make such order and such order as so made by the Chairman shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to have been duly made by the Board at such meeting;
(b) if any ordinary members attend such meeting, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—
(i) in case all such ordinary members pass unanimously a resolution in favour of the making of such order in terms specified in such resolution, such order shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to have been duly made in such terms by the Board at such meeting, and
(ii) in any other case, the Chairman shall make such order, and such order as so made by the Chairman shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part of this Act to have been duly made by the Board at such meeting.
Amendment No. 133 not moved.
Minister for Agriculture
I move amendment 134.
In sub-section (2), page 56, lines 30 and 31, to delete the words " an order amending a price order, or a freight allowance order " and to substitute the words " a freight allowance order, a buying allowance order, or an order amending a price order, a freight allowance order or a buying allowance order."
This amendment is to be compared with amendment 149. There is a freight allowance and there is also to be a buying allowance.
Deputy O'Reilly
Will the buying allowance be general ?
Minister for Agriculture
Where the pig is not delivered by the farmer to the factory.
The farmer will pay that.
Minister for Agriculture
Yes, but if he delivers the pig into the factory he can save that.
Deputy O'Reilly
Who gets that buying allowance ?
Minister for Agriculture
Deputy O'Reilly
Minister for Agriculture
They have to send out a man to buy or collect the pigs.
They have to buy them from a pig jobber. It gives the pig jobber a chance to live.
Deputy O'Reilly
So long as the pig jobber is getting it, a case can be made. Could it not be confined to cases in which a pig jobber is acting ?
Minister for Agriculture
Whether he is an agent or an employee of the factory or acting on his own, it will be the pig jobber who will get it.
Deputy O'Reilly
But the producer can eliminate the cost if he likes.
Under the Bill, a pig jobber could not act for the factory. He would have to buy by weight.
Minister for Agriculture
He will not, in fact, act for the factory under this Bill.
Minister for Agriculture
The factory could give him this allowance.
This allowance provides for the factory purchasing pigs from the pig jobber and giving the pig jobber something for his trouble ?
Minister for Agriculture
If the pig jobber is not acting as agent or buyer for a factory, he can buy lower than the fixed price.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendment 135 not moved.
Section 134, as amended, agreed to.
Section 135, 136, and 137 agreed to.
