Hop (Prevention of Frauds) Act 1866
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1866 c. 37 |
Hop (Prevention of Frauds) Act, 1866
(29 & 30 Vict.) C A P. XXXVII.
An Act to amend an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of KingGeorge the Third, Chapter One hundred and twenty-three, to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Trade of Hops.
[11th June 1866]
W HEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Third, intituled An Act to amend an Act ofthe Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of His present Majesty to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Trade of Hops , after reciting that by the said last-mentioned Act it was, among other things, enacted that every Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops, before he should begin to put any Hops into any Bag or Pocket, should mark or cause to be marked on the Outside thereof his Name and Place of Abode, and that by an Act made in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Lawsrelating to the marking of Bags and Pockets of Hops , it was enacted that every Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops should also mark on the Outside of every Bag or Pocket of Hops the Name of the Parish and of the County in which the Hops put into such Bag or Pocket should be grown, and that many Persons not only marked their own Names, and the Parishes and Counties in which the Hops were grown, on such Bags or Pockets, but also, in addition thereto, the Name and Symbol of other Counties, to the great Injury of such Owners or Growers whose Description they so used, as well as to the Dealers in Hops and of the Public, it was by the said first-mentioned Act enacted, that from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fourteen every Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops, before he, she, or they should begin to put any Hops into any Bag or Pocket, should mark or cause to be marked on the Outside of each and every such Bag or Bags, in plain and legible Letters of Four Inches in Length at the least, and Half an Inch in Breadth, and on the Outside of every such Pocket, in large, plain, and legible Letters of Three Inches in Length and Half an Inch in Breadth at the least, with durable Ink or Paint, his, her, or their Name or Names, and the Parish and County in which the said Hops to be packed therein were actually grown; and that if any Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops, or any other Person or Persons, should put any Hops into any Bag or Pocket without having marked or caused to be marked thereon, in manner therein-before directed, the several Matters and Things therein-before required and prescribed, or should, before or at any future Time after such Hops had been packed, mark or cause to be marked thereon the Name of any other Person, Parish, or County than as was therein-before directed or prescribed, or the Symbol appertaining to or anything denoting to be the Symbol of any other County or Place, every such Owner, Planter, or Grower, or other Person or Persons so offending, should for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds for every such Bag or Pocket, to be recovered and applied in manner directed by the said therein recited Act; and further, that if any Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops should knowingly put or suffer to be put any Hops of different Qualities and Value in the same Bag or Pocket, every such Owner, Planter, or Grower should forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds for every such Bag or Pocket, to be recovered and applied in manner therein-before directed:
And whereas the said Acts have been found ineffectual for preventing Frauds and Abuses in the Trade of Hops, and it is expedient to amend the same;
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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 Construction of Terms.
1. In the Construction of this Act the Word ‘Person’ shall include any Person, whether a Subject of Her Majesty or not, and any Body Corporate or Body of the like Nature; the Words ‘Trade Mark’ or ‘Symbol’ shall include any Arms or Coat of Arms of any County, City, Borough, Town, or District, or any Name, Signature, Word, Letter, Device, Emblem, Figure, Sign, Seal, Stamp, or other Work of any other Description, lawfully used by any Person to denote that the Hops in any Bag or Pocket were grown or produced by such Person in any particular Parish, County, or Place, or to denote the said Hops to be of a particular Quality or Description; the Words ‘Bag’ or ‘Pocket’ shall include any Package used for containing Hops, or in which Hops are packed and sent from the Grower or Producer to any Factor, Merchant, or Brewer, or other Person, either before or after a Sale thereof.
2 Growers, &c. to mark each Bag or Pocket with Year when Hops were actually grown, the true progressive Number and gross Weight thereof.
2. From and after the Twenty-first Day ofAugust in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, every Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops shall, within One Month after the said Hops shall have been packed in any Bag or Pocket, mark or cause to be marked with durable Ink or Paint on the Outside of each and every Bag containing Hops, in plain and legible Figures of Four Inches in Length at the least, and Half an Inch in Breadth, and on the Outside of each and every Pocket containing Hops, in plain and legible Figures of Three Inches in Length at the least, and Half an Inch in Breadth, in addition to his Name, and in addition to the Name of the Parish and of the County in which the Hops put into any such Bag or Pocket shall be grown, as required by the recited Acts, the Year in which such Hops were actually grown, the true progressive Number of each and every such Bag or Pocket according to the Numbers of the Bags or Pockets of Hops grown and weighed by such Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops during the then current Year, and the true gross Weight, in Hundredweights, Quarters, and Pounds, of each and every such Bag or Pocket.
3 Growers, &c. not marking Bags or Pockets as directed by the said recited Acts and this Act subject to a Penalty.
3. If after the Twenty-first Day ofAugust in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six any Owner, Planter, or Grower of Hops, or any other Person, shall not mark or cause to be marked on such Bag or Pocket, in manner directed by the said recited Acts, and by the last preceding Section of this Act, the several Matters and Things required and prescribed, every such Owner, Planter, Grower, or other Person so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit...
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