British Sugar Industry (Assistance) Act 1931
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1931 c. 35 |
| Year | 1931 |
British Sugar Industry (Assistance) Act, 1931
(21 & 22 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 35.
An Act to provide for the making of advances to certain companies in respect of sugar manufactured by them in Great Britain during a period of one year beginning on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, from beet grown in Great Britain; to provide for the recovery in certain events of the whole or some part of the advances so made, and for the remission of any balance thereof not so recovered; and for purposes incidental to, or consequential upon, the matters aforesaid.
[31st July 1931]
Whereas His Majesty's Government have, subject to the approval of Parliament, offered to grant assistance by way of advances, to the extent and subject to the conditions mentioned in this Act, to such persons engaged in the manufacture in Great Britain of sugar from beet grown in Great Britain as might be prepared to accept those conditions, and the said conditions have been accepted by the companies specified in the First Schedule to this Act:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Provision for the making of advances to certain manufacturers of British beet sugar.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and to the satisfaction of such requirements as to proof and otherwise as may be prescribed, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (in this Act referred to as ‘the Minister’) shall, out of moneys provided by Parliament, make advances to the companies specified in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act in respect of sugar manufactured by them from home-grown beet during the period of one year commencing on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, in the factories specified in the second column of the said Schedule.
(2) Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding subsection, the maximum quantity of sugar in respect of which advances may be made under this section shall, in the case of each scheduled factory, be three hundred thousand hundredweights, and if during the above mentioned period of one year a greater quantity of sugar is manufactured from home-grown beet at any such factory, advances shall be made in respect of the earliest output therefrom.
(3) A scheduled company which owns two or more scheduled factories may, with the consent of the Minister, elect that all those factories shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as a combination of factories, and two or more scheduled companies may, with the like consent, elect that all the scheduled factories owned by those companies shall be so treated, and, where such an election is so made, the maximum quantity of sugar in respect of which advances may be made to the company or companies in question shall be three hundred thousand hundredweights multiplied by the number of factories included in the combination, and if a greater quantity of sugar is manufactured from home-grown beet at those combined factories, advances shall be made in respect of the earliest output therefrom.
Where two or more companies have combined under this subsection, the advances payable in respect of their combined factories shall be paid to them in such proportions as they may agree, or as, in default of agreement, may be determined by the Minister.
(4) An advance shall not be made under this section to any company unless the Minister is satisfied, as respects all sugar manufactured, or to be manufactured, by the company from home-grown beet during the year commencing on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, that the price paid, or agreed to be paid, to the grower of the beet represents a rate not less than the price per ton specified in the Second Schedule to this Act.
(5) The amount of the advance to be made in respect of each hundredweight of sugar in respect of which an advance may be claimed under this section shall be calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act by reference to the market price of imported sugar, and shall in no case exceed one shilling and threepence per hundredweight.
(6) A calculation of the amount payable under this section to a scheduled company shall be made in respect of the output of each week, and payment shall be made so soon as may be after the amount payable has been ascertained.
2 Provisions with respect to repayment of advances.
(1) The provisions of this section shall have effect with respect to the manner in which, and the extent to which, advances made to a...
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