

2. (i.) Every person who sells, for use as food for cattle, any article which has 



been artificially pi vpai ed, .-hall give to the purchaser an invoice Mining the name of 

 tlu' article and whether it has been prepared Irom one substance or seed, or t'roin more 

 than one substance or seed, aiul this invoice shall have effect as a wananty by the 

 seller of the statements contained therein. 



(2.) \Vhere any article sold tot use as food for cattle is sold under a name or 

 description implying that it is prepared from any particular substance, or from two or 

 more particular substances, or is the product of any particular seed, or of two or more 

 particular seeds, and without any indication that it is mixed or compounded with any 

 Other substance or seed, there shall be an implied warranty by the seller that it is 

 pure, that is to say, is prepared trom that substance or those substances only, or is a 

 product of that seed or those seeds only. 



(3.) On the sale of any article for use as food for cattle, there shall be implied 

 a warranty by the seller that the article is suitable for feeding purposes. 



(4.) Any statement by the seller of the percentages of nutritive or other 

 ingredients contained in any article sold for use as food for cattle, made after the 

 commencement of this Act, in an invoice of such article, or in any circular or adver- 

 tisement descriptive of such article, shall have effect as a warranty by the seller. 



3. (r.) If any person who sells any article for use as a fertiliser of the soil or as 

 food for cattle commits any of the following offences, namely : 



(a.) Fails without reasonable excuse to give, on or before, or as soon as 

 possible after the delivery of the article, the invoice required by this 

 Act ; or 



(b.) Causes or permits any invoice or description of the article sold by him to 



be false in any material particular to the prejudice of the purchaser ; or 



(c. } Sells for use as food for cattle any article which contains any ingredient 



deleterious to cattle, or to which has been added any ingredient 



worthless for feeding purposes and not disclosed at the time of the sale : 



he shall, without prejudice to any civil liability, be liable, on summary conviction, for 



a first offence, to a fine not exceeding Twenty pounds, and for any subsequent offence 



to a fine not exceeding Fifty pounds. 



(2.) In any proceeding for an offence under this section it shall be no defence 

 to allege that the buyer, having bought only for analysis, was not prejudiced by the 

 sale, or that the article sold, though deficient in one or more constituents, was not 

 defective in other constituents. 



(3.) A person alleged to have committed an offence under this section in 

 respect of an article sold by him shall be entitled to the same rights and remedies, 

 civil or criminal, against the person from whom he bought the article as are available 

 to the person to whom he sold the article, and any damages recovered by him may, if 

 the circumstances justify it, include the amount of any fine and costs paid by him on 

 conviction under this section, and the costs of and incidental to his defence on such 

 conviction. 



4:. The Governor may appoint an agricultural analyst (hereafter referred to as 

 the analyst), and may, from time to time repeal or alter regulations for carrying this 

 Act into effect. Such regulations shall be published in the Government (raze tic, and 

 shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after such 

 publication, if Parliament be then sitting, and if Parliament be not then sitting, within 

 fourteen days after its next meeting ; and all such regulations, when so published, 

 shall have the force of law, and shall continue in force, unless repealed as aforesaid, or 

 disallowed by both Houses of Parliament, 



5. Kvery seller and every buyer of any article used for fertilising the soil or as 

 food for cattle shall be entitled, on payment to the analyst of a fee in accordance with 

 the regulations, to have the article analysed by the analyst and to receive from him a 

 certificate of the result of his analysis. 



The certificate of the analyst as regards fertilisers shall be in the form and contain 

 the particulars mentioned in the Schedule hereto or as near thereto as circumstances 

 permit, and every analyst shall report to the Minister as he directs the result of any 

 analysis made by him in pursuance of this Act. 



