1906.] Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act. 465 



a certificate of his analysis to the person who submitted the 

 sample for analysis, and where that person is not the purchaser 

 of the article also to the purchaser, and in every case to the 

 seller and to such other persons (if any) as may be prescribed, 

 and is to report to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries the 

 result of any such analysis. If the agricultural analyst does 

 not know the name and address of the seller, he is to send the 

 certificate intended for the seller to the purchaser, to be by him 

 forwarded to the seller. 



In any legal proceedings based on a sample which has been 

 taken in the prescribed manner, and divided as above men- 

 tioned, the certificate of the analyst is to be taken as evidence, 

 unless the defendant requires the person who made the analysis 

 to be called as a witness. Either party to the proceeding may 

 require, on payment of a fee, the part of the sample retained 

 by the analyst to be submitted to the chief analyst. 



Power is given to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to 

 make regulations with respect to any matter which under the 

 Act is to be prescribed, and as to the qualifications to be 

 possessed by agricultural analysts and official samplers, as to 

 the manner in which analyses are to be made, as to the manner 

 in which samples are to be taken and dealt with ; and generally 

 for the purpose of carrying the Act into execution. 



All samples sent for analysis must be accompanied by the 

 invoice, or a copy thereof, or of such part thereof as is prescribed. 



Provisions relating to Offences, Penalties, &c. 



Section 6 (i) makes the seller of any article for use as a 

 fertiliser of the soil or as food for cattle or poultry liable with- 

 out prejudice to any civil liability, 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, if 

 he 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 the 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 preju- 

 dice of the purchaser ; or 



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