Penalty for 

 obstructing 

 of&cial 

 sampler. 



Institution 

 of prosecu- 

 tions and 

 appeals. 



Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906 



exceeding twenty pounds, or to imprisonment for a term 

 not exceeding six months. 

 8. If— 

 (a) the owner, or the person entrusted for the time 

 being with the charge or custody of any 

 article sold or intended to be sold for use as 

 a fertiliser of the soil or as food for cattle or 

 poultry refuses to allow an official sampler 

 to take a sample of the article for the pur- 

 pose of analysis ; or 

 {b) the purchaser of any such article refuses to 

 give to an official sampler the invoice of the 

 article or a copy thereof or of any prescribed 

 part thereof ; 

 he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not 

 exceeding ten pounds. 



9. — (i) Subject to the provisions of this Act as to the 

 consent of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, a 

 prosecution for an offence under this Act may be in- 

 stituted either by the person aggrieved, or by the council 

 of a coimty or borough, or by any body or association 

 authorised in that behalf by the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries. 



(2) A prosecution for an offence of causing or per- 

 mitting an invoice or description to be false in any 

 material particular shall not be instituted under this 

 Act— 



(fl) after the expiration of three months from the 

 date when the invoice was received by the 

 purchaser ; nor 

 {b) unless a sample for analysis has been taken, and 

 an analysis by the agricultural analyst has been 

 made, and a certificate of analysis has been 

 given, in accordance with regulations made 

 under this Act : 

 But the proceedings may be taken as well before the 

 court having jurisdiction in the place where the pur- 

 chaser of the article to which the invoice or description 

 relates resides or carries on business, as before the court 



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