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Resolution reported,
That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for the better organisation of the bacon industry and the pig producing industry, it is expedient to authorize—
§ A. The payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any administrative expenses incurred for the purposes of the said Act by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland;
§ B. In respect of certain pigs related to years comprised within a period of three years commencing with an appointed day—
- (1) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament to bacon curers of sums related to rises in the cost of a standard ration for pigs over eight shillings and six pence per hundredweight;
- (2) the payment into the Exchequer of sums recovered from bacon curers, being sums related to falls in the cost of the said standard ration below the said sum;
- (3) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament to bacon curers of sums related to falls in the price of bacon below, in the case of sums payable in respect of the first year, ninety-four
1190 shillings and nine pence per hundredweight, in the case of sums payable in respect of the second year, ninety-three shillings and nine pence per hundredweight, and in the case of sums payable in respect of the third year, ninety-one shillings and nine pence per hundredweight; - (4) the payment into the Exchequer of sums recovered from bacon curers, being sums related to rises in the price of bacon over the said amounts respectively;
§ so however that the sums to be paid in respect of any pig shall in all cases be calculated by reference to, amongst other things, the weight of bacon produced or presumed to be produced from that pig on specified classes of premises, with an addition in certain cases for weight lost by the removal of bones and skin, and that sums are not paid, in the case of the first year, for more than two million one hundred thousands pigs, in the case of the second year, for more than two million four hundred thousand pigs, and in the case of the third year, for more than two million five hundred thousand pigs."
§ The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.