§ Captain McEWENasked the Minister of Agriculture what steps are necessary to enable any group of individuals who may happen to run a butchery business in conjunction with a farm or farms to separate the two businesses in order to qualify for the subsidy under the Cattle Industry (Emergency Provisions) Acts, 1934 and 1935, in the same way that at the present time a co-operative farming society can sell its fat cattle to its parent co-operative society, both being under identical directorship, and receive the subsidy?
§ Mr. ELLIOTIn order that subsidy may be payable under the Cattle Industry (Emergency Provisions) Acts in respect of any animal, it is necessary that the animal or its carcase should have been sold in the United Kingdom, and the Cattle Committee have accordingly to be satisfied that there has been a bona fide transfer of property for value between parties who are at law capable of carrying out such a transaction. The exact894W circumstances in which this requirement of the Acts would be satisfied in respect of businesses such as are indicated in the question must depend on the particular conditions of each case, and are a matter upon which it would be inappropriate for me to advise.