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40 1956

FLOUR AND WHEATENMEAL ACT, 1956

PART II.

Regulation and Control.

Production of flour and wheatenmeal.

6. —(1) All flour produced at a licensed mill, except flour produced in accordance with a permit, shall be straight-run flour.

(2) All wheatenmeal produced at a licensed mill, except wheatenmeal produced in accordance with a permit, shall be standard wheatenmeal.

(3) All flour or wheatenmeal produced at a permitted mill, except flour or wheatenmeal produced in accordance with a permit, shall be composed of not less than the prescribed percentage of the wheat from which it is produced.

(4) The Minister may prescribe the proportions of home-grown wheat and imported wheat of which millers' grist is to be composed for the production of flour or wheatenmeal and, in such case, all flour or wheatenmeal produced at a licensed mill, except flour or wheatenmeal produced in accordance with a permit, shall be derived from the milling of a grist containing not less than the prescribed proportion of home-grown wheat.

(5) Every person who is the holder of a milling licence or a milling (home-grown wheat) permit in respect of a mill shall ensure that this section is complied with in respect of the mill.

Removal of screenings, seeds and dust in cleaning wheat.

7. —Except in accordance with a permit, no person shall, in cleaning a bulk of wheat for the purpose of milling, remove from the bulk as screenings, seeds and dust more than the prescribed percentage of the total weight of the bulk.

Prohibition on removal of wheat berry.

8. —A person who carries on any business shall not, for the purposes of or in the course of that business, remove by any means any part of the wheat berry from flour or wheatenmeal, or from any mixture of flour or wheatenmeal with any other commodity.

Prohibition on mixing flour and bran for manufacture of bread.

9. —A person who carries on the business of manufacturing bread for sale shall not manufacture bread from an admixture of flour and bran.

Restriction on sale of flour and wheatenmeal.

10. —Except in accordance with a permit, the holder of a milling licence shall not sell any flour other than straight-run flour, and shall not sell any wheatenmeal other than standard wheatenmeal.

Price of flour and wheatenmeal.

11. —Except in accordance with a permit, the prices to be charged by the holder of a milling licence in respect of a mill for straight-run flour and for standard wheatenmeal produced at the mill shall not exceed such prices as may be prescribed; and different prices may be prescribed for different areas and for different descriptions of straight-run flour and standard wheatenmeal.

Manufacture of flour confectionery and other commodities.

12. —(1) In this section “flour confectionery” means any product of flour to which sugar or other sweetening matter has been added, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, includes biscuits.

(2) The Minister may prescribe the percentage of wheat of which flour for use in flour confectionery or any other specified commodity is to be composed and, in such case, except in accordance with a permit, a person shall not in the course of any business use any flour other than flour of the prescribed percentage in the manufacture of flour confectionery or any such specified commodity.

(3) Except in accordance with a permit, a person shall not in the course of any business use wheatenmeal in the manufacture of flour confectionery or any such specified commodity.

(4) The price to be charged by the holder of a milling licence for flour of the percentage prescribed under this section produced at the mill shall not exceed such price as may be specified in a permit granted to that person for the production of that flour.

(5) The price to be charged by the holder of a milling licence for standard wheatenmeal produced at the mill for use in the manufacture of flour confectionery or other specified commodities in accordance with a permit shall not exceed such price as may be specified in a permit granted to that person for the production of wheatenmeal.

Grant of permits.

13. —The Minister may, for the purposes of this Act, from time to time grant permits to holders of milling licences or milling (home-grown wheat) permits or to persons who use flour or wheatenmeal for the purposes of their business and may attach to any permit granted by him such conditions as he thinks proper.