Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1926

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1926 c. 21


Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act, 1926

(16 & 17 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 21.

An Act to amend the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, 1887 and 1891.

[15th July 1926]

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:—

S-1 Disclosure of weight of fat cattle on sale by auction.

1 Disclosure of weight of fat cattle on sale by auction.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act an auctioneer shall not offer for sale in any market, fair, or mart, in or near which a weighing machine is provided for the purpose of complying with the provisions of the principal Acts, any cattle which are fit for immediate slaughter unless they have been weighed on the weighing machine and their weight as so ascertained is disclosed to intending purchasers at the time of the offer for sale, either by announcement made by the auctioneer or in some other manner calculated to bring it to their notice.

(2) Any auctioneer who offers for sale any cattle in contravention of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings for each head of cattle so offered for sale.

(3) In this section the expression ‘cattle’ means bulls, cows, oxen and heifers.

(4) The Minister may by order declare that the foregoing provisions of this Act shall not apply as respects any market, fair or mart.

S-2 Extension of powers of Minister to grant exemption from provisions of principal Acts.

2 Extension of powers of Minister to grant exemption from provisions of principal Acts.

2. So much of section nine of the Act of 1887as prevents the Minister from making an order under that section on any ground except that the sale of cattle at a market or fair is, or is likely to be, so small as to render it inexpedient to enforce the provision and maintenance of a place for weighing cattle and of a weighing machine under that Act, shall cease to have effect, and the power of the Minister under the said section to exempt any market or fair from the requirements of that Act as to the provision and maintenance of facilities for weighing cattle, and the power of the Minister under section four of the Act of 1891to exempt an auctioneer from the requirements...

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