790 Quarterly Report of the Chemical Committee, Dec., 1893. 
is to have effect as a warranty by the seller of the statements contained 
therein [section 2 (1)]. 
Where any article sold for use as food for cattle is sold under a name or 
description implying that it is prepared from any particular substance, or 
from any two or more particular substances, or is the product of any par- 
ticular seed, or of any two or more particular seeds, and without any indi- 
cation that it is mixed or compounded with any other substance or seed, 
there is to be implied a warranty by the seller that it is pure, i.e. is prepared 
from that substance or those substances only, or is a product of that seed or 
those seeds only [section 2 (2)]. 
On the sale of any article for use as food for cattle, there is to be implied 
a warranty by the seller that the article is suitable for feeding purposes 
[section 2 (3)]. 
Any statement by the seller of the percentages of nutritive and other 
ingredients contained in any article sold for use as food for cattle, made 
after the commencement of the Act in an invoice of such article, or in any 
circular or advertisement descriptive of such article, is to have effect as a 
warranty by the seller [section 2 (4)]. 
For the purposes of the Act the expression “ cattle ” means bulls, cows, 
oxen, heifers, calves, sheep, goats, swine, and horses [section 8 (1)]. 
Offences, Penalties, and Legal Proceedings. 
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 : — 
(а) 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 
(б) 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 
qiurchaser ; 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 will, without prejudice to any civil liability, be liable, on summary con- 
viction, for a first offence to a fine not exceeding 201., and for any subsequent 
offence to a fine not exceeding 50 1. [section 3 (1)]. 
In any proceeding for an offence under this section it will be no defence 
to allege that the buyer, having bought only for analysis, was not prejudiced 
by the sale [section 3 (2)]. 
A person alleged to have committed an offence under section 3 in respect 
of an article sold by him will 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 who bought the article from him, 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 section 3, 
and the costs of aud incidental to his defence on such conviction [section 
3 (bi- 
section 7 of the Act provides that a prosecution may be instituted either 
by the person aggrieved, or by the council of a county or borough, or by 
any body or association authorised in that behalf by the Board of Agri- 
culture ; but that in the case of air offence under section 3, no prosecution 
shall be instituted by the person aggrieved or by any body or association 
except on a certificate by the Board that there is reasonable ground for the 
prosecution. 
