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Corn Saie.s Act, 1921. 



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transactions in them are based on a price per hundredweight. 

 There are some exceptions to the Act which are set out in full 

 below, but so far as home-grown crops are concerned, the main 

 exceptions, apart from sales for export, are dealings in growing 

 and unthreshed crops. As regards articles produced outside the 

 United Kingdom, the x\ct does not apply to dealings in them 

 before they have arrived in the United Kingdom, nor does it 

 appl}' to imported articles so long as they remain in the ware- 

 house, store or shed where they were first stored on importa- 

 tion. The Act is also not applicable to cases where the con- 

 tract, sale, etc., provides for delivery in the original bags in 

 which the articles were imported (subject only to rebagging 

 in replacement of damaged bags). So far as the farmer is 

 concerned, therefore, these exceptions as regards imported 

 produce would seldom apply. 



The relevant sections of the Act are given below in full : — 



Section 1. From and after the commencement of this Act, every 

 contract, bargain, sale or deahng rehating to corn shall, unless it is made 

 or had by weight only and in terms of and by reference to the hundred- 

 weight of one hundred and twelve imperial standard pounds, be null and 

 void. 



Provided that this Act shall not apply to any contract, bargain, sale or 

 dealing — 



(i) for or relating to a less quantity of corn than one hundred and 



twelve imperial standard pounds ; 



(ii) for or relating to corn which at the date of the contract, bargain, 



sale or dealing is not within the United Kingdom, or to corn 

 imported into the United Kingdom so long as the same shall 

 remain in the warehouse, or store, or shed where the same shall 

 have been first stored on importation ; 



(iii) for or relating to corn imported into the United Kingdom in 

 cases where such contract, bargain, sale, or dealing provides for 

 delivery in the original bags in which the corn was imported 

 (subject only to rebagging in replacement of damaged bags) ; 



(iv) for or relating to corn bought or sold for export from the United 

 Kingdom : 



(v) for or relating to corn growing on or in the land or to corn 



unthreshed. 



Section 6. In this Act the expression '• corn " shall, Avhere the context 

 permits, include wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize and the meal and bran 

 derived therefrom, and any mixture thereof, and this Act shall ap[)ly to 

 dried peas, dried beans, linseed and potatoes, and to the seed of grass^ 

 clover, vetches, swedes, field turnips, rape, field cabbages, field kale, field 

 kohl-rabi, mangels, beet and sugar-beet, flax, and sainfoin in like manner 

 as it applies to corn. 



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