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24 1935

PIGS AND BACON ACT, 1935

PART I.

Preliminary and General.

Short Title and Commencement.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day or days as shall be fixed therefor by an Order made by the Minister, either generally or with reference to any particular Part or provision, and different days may be so fixed for different Parts and different provisions of this Act.

Definitions.

2. —In this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister far Agriculture;

the word “carcase” means the carcase of a pig, whether wholly or partly eviscerated;

the word “bacon” includes ham and gammons;

the word “offals” means any part of a pig (other than the carcase) which is capable of use for food for human consumption;

the expression “the Bacon Marketing Board” means the Bacon Marketing Board to be established under Part III of this Act;

the expression “the Pigs Marketing Board” means the Pigs Marketing Board to be established under Part IV of this Act;

the expression “local sanitary authority” means a sanitary authority for the purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1931;

the expression “the local slaughter-house authority” means the local authority having in the place in relation to which the expression is used powers of registering and licensing slaughterhouses;

the expression “office hours” means—

(a) in relation to any day (not being a Sunday, a bank holiday, or a locally observed holiday or half-holiday) any time between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon during which business is being carried on or work is being done at the premises in relation to which the expression is used; and

(b) in relation to any locally observed half-holiday, any time between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and one o'clock in the afternoon during which business is being carried on or work is being done at the premises in relation to which the expression is used.

Service of documents.

3. —(1) Where a document is required or permitted by this Act to be served on any person, such document shall be served on such person in one or other of the following ways, that is to say:—

(a) by delivering to such person such document, or

(b) by sending such document by post in a prepaid registered letter addressed to such person at the address where he carries on business.

(2) For the purposes of this section a body corporate registered in Saorstát Eireann under the Companies Acts, 1908 to 1924, shall be deemed to carry on business at its registered office, and every other body corporate and every unincorporated body shall be deemed to carry on business at its principal office or place of business in Saorstát Eireann.

Expenses of Minister.

4. —All expenses incurred by the Minister in carrying this Act into execution shall, to such extent as shall be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.