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MARKETS AND FAIRS (WEIGHING OF CATTLE) ACT 1891 - SECT 3

Statistics as to weight and sale of cattle.

3.(1) The market authority of every market and fair held in any of the places
mentioned in the schedule to this Act shall send to the Irish Land Commission
returns, at such intervals, and in such form and with such particulars as the
Irish Land Commission by order prescribe, showing, so far as the market
authority can ascertain the same, the number of cattle entering and the number
and weight of cattle weighed at the market or fair, and the price of the
cattle sold thereat. Such market authority may, for the purpose of making a
prescribed return, cause any cattle which have been sold at the market to be
weighed without fee.

(2) The Irish Land Commission shall publish the returns so sent, or abstracts
thereof, or extracts therefrom, in such manner as they think most expedient
for the information of the public.

(3) If a market authority wilfully makes default in complying with the
requirements of this section, it shall for each offence be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or in case of a continuing
offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during which the
offence continues.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1946 c.13 (NI) s.16(3) sch.; 1967 c.18 (NI) s.15(2) sch.2
Pt.I

(5) The Irish Land Commission may from time to time vary or add to the list of
places in the schedule to this Act.

© 1891 Crown Copyright

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