Pig Production Development Act (Northern Ireland) 1964(repealed)

5 Power to impose levy on pigs sold to, or exported by, persons other than the Board. N.I.

[F1 (1) For the purpose of enabling the Committee to meet expenses incurred or likely to be incurred by them in connection with the carrying out of their functions under this Act, the Department on the recommendation of the Committee may, by order made subject to negative resolution, impose a levy—

(a) upon every holder of a licence under section 1 of the Slaughter-houses Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 in respect of each pig slaughtered in the slaughter-house to which the licence relates, not being a pig imported into Northern Ireland for immediate slaughter; and

(b) upon every person exporting pigs from Northern Ireland in respect of each pig so exported by him.

(2) The amount of a levy imposed by an order made under subsection (1) shall be [F2 of such amount as the Department, on the recommendation of the Committee[F3 under section 2(2)], may, by order, determine] and shall be payable to the Committee or, if the order so provides, to the Ministry on behalf of the Committee.

(3) An order made under subsection (1) may—

(a) for the purpose of enabling the liability of persons to pay a levy imposed under the order to be determined, require every[F3 holder of a licence under section 1 of the Slaughter-houses Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 and every person] exporting pigs from Northern Ireland to keep and produce to the Ministry such records and make such returns to the Ministry as may be specified in the order;

(b) make provision as to the time and place at which and the manner in which payment of the levy imposed under the order shall be made, including provision for the payment of the levy by other persons on behalf of persons upon whom the levy is imposed;

(c) make provision for the recovery of the levy imposed under the order and for the payment out of the Development Fund of any expenses incurred in recovering the levy;

(d) provide for the payment of such fees as may be determined by the Committee to any person authorised to collect on behalf of the Ministry or the Committee any levy imposed under the order;

(e) make such other provision as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of carrying the provisions of the order into effect.

(4) Information contained in records or returns produced or made to the Ministry in pursuance of a requirement in an order made under subsection (1) shall not, without the consent in writing of the person by whom the information was furnished, be disclosed except—

(a) in connection with the execution of this Act or any order made thereunder; or

(b) for the purposes of any proceedings pursuant thereto or of any report of such proceedings; or

(c) in the form of a summary of similar returns or information furnished by or obtained from a number of persons, being a summary so framed as not to enable particulars relating to the business of an individual person to be ascertained therefrom.]

F1 1994 NI6

F2 1977 NI 12

F3 1994 NI 6