Herring Fishery (Branding) Act 1913
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1913 c. 9 |
| Year | 1913 |
Herring Fishery (Branding) Act, 1913
(3 & 4 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 9.
An Act to provide for the Branding of Barrels filled with Cured Herrings in England and Wales.
[15th August 1913]
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 Power to brand barrels filled with cured herrings.
(1) In any place in which this section is in force barrels filled with cured white herrings may be presented to an officer appointed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for the purpose of being branded or otherwise marked with a mark denoting the description of the herrings contained therein, and any barrel so presented shall, on payment of the prescribed fee and on compliance with the prescribed conditions, be marked accordingly, if, in the opinion of the officer, after inspection and examination, the construction, capacity, and condition of the barrel and the quality, curing, selection, and packing of the herrings are such as to satisfy the prescribed requirements.
(2) The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may, by order published in such manner as the Board direct, declare this section to be in force in any place in England or Wales if it is shown to their satisfaction that there is a general desire on the part of the curers of herrings carrying on business in that place that such an order should be made.
The Board shall, at least two months before making any such order, give notice of their intention to make the order in such manner as the Board think calculated to give publicity thereto in the locality, and shall consider any objections or representations made to them in the interval.
(3) No barrel or half-barrel shall be branded unless it have a capacity, in the case of a barrel, of twenty-six and two-thirds imperial gallons, or, in the case of a half-barrel, of thirteen and a third imperial gallons.
(4) For the purposes of this Act, the expression ‘barrel’ includes half-barrel when the context permits.
2 Forgery of brands.
(1) If any person forges or counterfeits any mark used for marking barrels under this Act, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
(2) If any person knowingly uses, sells, utters, disposes of, or exposes for sale any barrel (whether filled with...
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