Sugar Industry Act 1942
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1942 c. 16 |
| Year | 1942 |
Sugar Industry Act, 1942
(5 & 6 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 16.
An Act to amend the Sugar Industry (Reorganization) Act, 1936, as respects the war years.
[29th April 1942]
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 Purchases of home-grown beet and production and marketing of white sugar.
(1) So much of section five of the principal Act as relates to the determination of—
(a ) the terms and conditions upon which the Corporation is required to make contracts for the purchase of home-grown beet for delivery in any year;
(b ) the acreage of land in respect of the produce of which such contracts are to be made; and
(c ) the quantity of home-grown beet that may be acquired from any person by the Corporation,
shall not apply in relation to contracts for delivery in the year 1941-42 or any subsequent war year.
(2) No proposals shall be submitted by the Corporation to the Commission under section six of the principal Act showing arrangements proposed as to the production and marketing by the Corporation of white sugar during the year 1940-41 or any subsequent war year.
(3) The foregoing provisions of this section shall be deemed to have had effect as from the first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty.
2 Registration and licensing of refiners.
(1) Until the end of the war period—
(a ) the provisions of section seven of the principal Act (which relates to the registration of refiners of sugar) shall not have effect; and
(b ) no licensing scheme shall be made as respects such refiners under section nineteen of the said Act.
(2) The foregoing provisions of this section, so far as those provisions relate to the registration of refiners, shall be deemed to have had effect as from the eleventh day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.
3 Provisions as to Sugar Refining Agreement.
3. The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the Sugar Refining Agreement, that is to say—
4 Assistance to Sugar Corporation.
(1) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph 3 of the Fourth Schedule to the principal Act (which provides for adjustment of the rate of assistance by reference to variations of the customs and excise duties on sugar), the full rate of customs duty chargeable on foreign sugar in the week ended on the second day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and any subsequent week in the year 1939-40, shall be deemed to have been—
(a ) in the case of sugar of a polarisation exceeding ninety-eight degrees but not exceeding ninety-nine degrees, a rate of nineteen shillings and nine and three-fifths pence per hundredweight; and
(b ) in the case of sugar of a polarisation exceeding ninety-nine degrees, a rate of twenty-one shillings per hundred-weight.
(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (ii) of the said paragraph 3 (which provides for adjustment of the rate of assistance consequent on alterations of the average raw sugar price), and of any agreement made under subsection (4) of section fourteen of the principal Act, the average raw sugar price for the...
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