Cattle Industry (Emergency Provisions) Act 1934
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1934 c. 54 |
| Year | 1934 |
Cattle Industry (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1934
(24 & 25 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 54.
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Cattle Fund; for the making of payments and advances to the said fund out of moneys provided by Parliament and out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom; for the making of payments out of the Cattle Fund to producers of cattle in respect of the sale by them, during a limited period, of certain cattle or carcases of certain cattle; for the marking of imported cattle; for the appointment of a Cattle Committee; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[31st July 1934]
Be it 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 Establishment of, and payments to, Cattle Fund.
(1) For the purposes of this Act there shall be established a fund (which shall be called, and is hereinafter referred to as, ‘the Cattle Fund’), and that fund shall, subject to such directions as may be given by the Treasury, be administered and controlled by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretaries of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively (hereinafter referred to as ‘the appropriate Ministers’).
(2) The Treasury may, during the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, make, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof, advances to the Cattle Fund not exceeding in the aggregate three million pounds, but any advances made under this subsection to the Cattle Fund shall be repaid from that fund to the Exchequer of the United Kingdom before the end of that financial year.
(3) There shall be paid into the Cattle Fund out of moneys provided by Parliament such sums as Parliament may determine.
2 Payments out of Cattle Fund to producers of cattle.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the appropriate Ministers may, in accordance with any arrangements approved by them for the purposes of this section, make out of the Cattle Fund payments to producers of cattle in respect of—
(a ) steers, heifers or cow-heifers certified in accordance with the arrangements to conform with a standard prescribed by regulations of the said Ministers; or
(b ) carcases of such steers, heifers or cow-heifers as have been so certified to conform with that standard,
being animals or carcases, as the case may be, which have been sold in the United Kingdom by such producers during a period beginning on such day after the end of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, as those Ministers may appoint, and ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five.
Regulations made for the purposes of this subsection may prescribe different standards in relation to different descriptions of cattle.
(2) Every payment under this section shall—
(a ) in the case of any live animal, be an amount computed on the weight of the animal as at the time when it was certified for the purposes of the foregoing subsection, at such rate per hundredweight,...
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