Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1949

2 Supplementary provisions as to calf subsidy schemes.

(1) A scheme made under the preceding section may contain provisions—

(a) for securing that no payment under the scheme shall be made unless application therefor is made at the time and in the manner specified in the scheme;

(b) providing for the certification and marking of calves in respect of which an application for any such payment is made;

(c) generally for securing that payments under the scheme are properly made; and

(d) for prohibiting the assignment of any right to a payment under the scheme;

and may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to the appropriate Minister to be requisite or expedient for the purposes of the scheme.

(2) If any person, with intent to deceive, alters or defaces a mark placed on a calf in pursuance of any such scheme, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(3) If any person obstructs any person in the marking, in accordance with any such scheme, of a calf in respect of which an application for a payment under that scheme has been made, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(4) The power to make such a scheme and the power to make an order under subsection (4) of the preceding section shall be construed as including power to vary or revoke the scheme or order by a subsequent scheme or order.

(5) The power to make, vary or revoke such a scheme shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and any such statutory instrument shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(6) The power to make, vary or revoke an order under subsection (4) of the preceding section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and no such order shall be made unless a draft thereof has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.