Milk Act 1934
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1934 c. 51 |
| Year | 1934 |
Milk Act, 1934.
(24 & 25 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 51.
An Act to provide for temporarily securing to producers of milk, by means of payments out of moneys provided by Parliament, a minimum return in respect of milk used in the manufacture of milk products; for conditionally requiring repayment to the Exchequer of the amount of such payments; for making, out of moneys so provided, payments for the purposes of improving the quality of the milk supply and increasing the demand for milk; for regulating the manner in which milk is described for the purposes of advertisement and sale; for imposing and conferring certain duties and powers on boards administering milk marketing schemes; 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:—
Payments from and to the Exchequer in respect of milk used for manufacture.
1 Exchequer payments in respect of milk sold for manufacture.
1. Where, by means of such evidence as may be prescribed, the board administering a milk marketing scheme satisfy the Minister—
(1) that any quantity of milk produced in the area to which the scheme applies, being milk delivered in accordance with—
(a ) a contract for the sale of milk by a registered producer otherwise than to, or through the agency of, the board, or
(b ) a contract for the sale of milk by the board, either in their own right or as agents for a registered producer,
has, in any of the twenty-four consecutive months falling between the end of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and the beginning of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, been used (elsewhere than at a farm) in manufacturing any milk product; and
(2) that by virtue of the terms of the contract the net cost per gallon of the milk to the purchaser is less than the standard price for that month;
then, if the cheese-milk price for that month, as certified in accordance with this Act, is less than the standard price for that month, the Minister shall, out of moneys provided by Parliament, pay to the board, in respect of each gallon comprised in that quantity of milk, a sum equal to the difference between the said cheese-milk price or the net cost per gallon of the milk to the purchaser (whichever is the greater) and the said standard price.
2 Exchequer payments in respect of milk used for manufacture by milk marketing boards.
(1) Where, by means of such evidence as may be prescribed, the board administering a milk marketing scheme satisfy the Minister that any quantity of milk produced by a registered producer in the area to which the scheme applies has, in any of the twenty-four consecutive months falling between the end of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and the beginning of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, been used by the board in manufacturing any milk product, then if both the cheese-milk price for that month, as certified in accordance with this Act, and the appropriate manufacturing milk price are less than the standard price for that month, the Minister shall, out of moneys provided by Parliament, pay to the board, in respect of each gallon comprised in that quantity of milk, a sum equal to the difference between the said cheese-milk price or the said manufacturing milk price (whichever is the greater) and the said standard price.
(2) In this section the expression ‘the appropriate manufacturing milk price,’ in relation to any milk which has, in any month, been used by the board administering a milk marketing scheme in manufacturing any particular milk product, means such sum as may be certified by the Minister to represent the net sum per gallon for which the milk so used by the board could, if it had been available for purchase otherwise than by the board, have been bought wholesale by any other person for use in that month in manufacturing that milk product.
(3) Whenever the board administering a milk marketing scheme request the Minister to deliver to them a certificate for the purposes of this section in relation to milk used by the board in any month, it shall be the duty of the Minister to deliver that certificate to the board.
3 Exchequer payments in respect of milk converted into cheese at farms.
(1) Where, by means of such evidence as may be prescribed, the board administering a milk marketing scheme satisfy the Minister that any quantity of milk produced by a registered producer in the area to which the scheme applies has, in any of the twenty-four consecutive months falling between the end of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and the beginning of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, been used by him in manufacturing cheese at a farm in his occupation, then if the cheese-milk price for that month, as certified in accordance with this Act, is less than the standard price for that month, the Minister shall, out of moneys provided by Parliament, pay to the board, in respect of each gallon comprised in that quantity of milk, a sum equal to the difference between the two prices aforesaid:
Provided that, as respects any particular milk marketing scheme, the Minister may from time to time by order direct that no sums shall be payable under this section to the board in respect of milk which has, in any month to which the order applies, been used by a registered producer in manufacturing cheese at a farm, unless the board satisfy the Minister that, at the beginning of that month, the registered producer had in his possession, in the area to which the scheme applied, not less than such number of milch cows as may be specified in the order; and the Minister may by order vary or revoke any previous order made by him under this proviso.
(2) An order under the proviso to the foregoing subsection may be made so as to apply to a specified month, or to a specified month and also to every subsequent month until the order is varied or revoked, and shall be made not less than fourteen days before the commencement of the month or of the first month, as the case may be, to which it is to apply:
Provided that, within four weeks from the commencement of this Act, an order may be made so as to apply to the month of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and any subsequent month down to, and including, the month of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-four.
4 Definition of ‘cheese-milk price’ and ‘standard price,’ and certification of cheese-milk price.
(1) For the purposes of this Act—
(a ) the cheese-milk price for any month shall be the excess over one penny three-farthings of the average of the prices per pound at which cheese such as is commonly known at the commencement of this Act as ‘New Zealand finest white’ and ‘Canadian finest white’ was sold wholesale in Great Britain during the immediately preceding month; and
(b ) the standard price for each of the six consecutive months falling between the end of March in any year and the beginning of the next following October shall be fivepence, and the standard price for each of the six consecutive months falling between the end of September in any year and the beginning of the next following April shall be sixpence.
(2) The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland, acting in conjunction, shall—
(a ) as soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, certify the cheese-milk price for the month of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and for each subsequent month down to and including the month of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-four; and
(b ) as soon as may be after the beginning of the month of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and of each subsequent month falling before April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, certify the cheese-milk price for that month.
(3) Every certificate given for the purposes of this section shall state the method by which the cheese-milk price certified in the certificate has been computed, and the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland shall cause the certificate to be published, as soon as may be, in such manner as they think best for informing persons concerned.
5 Payments to Exchequer in respect of milk used in manufacturing milk products.
(1) Where, in the case of any milk marketing scheme, any quantity of milk produced in the area to which the scheme applies—
(a ) having been sold by a registered producer otherwise than to, or through the agency of, the board, or sold by the board either in their own right or as agents for a registered producer, is, in any of the twenty-four consecutive months falling between the end of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and the beginning of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, used (elsewhere than at a farm) in manufacturing any milk product; or
(b ) having been produced by a registered producer, is, in any such month as aforesaid, used by the board in manufacturing any milk product;
then if the cheese-milk price for that month, as certified in accordance with this Act, exceeds the standard price for that month by more than one penny, the board shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, pay at the prescribed time to the Minister, in respect of each gallon comprised in that quantity of milk, a sum equal to the difference between the said standard price...
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