Note. Where the amount of the sugar or molasses is less than one hundredweight, the rate of the subsidy shall be proportionately reduced. (1) The price means the price payable as in respect of A.D. 1925. (2) Where the sugar content of any beets is greater or less than fifteen and one-half per cent. there shall be made an addition to or deduction from the minimum price at the rate of threepence in respect of each 0.1 per cent. above or below fifteen and one half, as 5 the case may be. (3) The sugar content of beets shall be ascertained by means of the cold water digestion method. THIRD SCHEDULE. PROVISIONS SUBSTITUTED FOR PARAGRAPH 3 OF 10 3. The Commissioners of Customs and Excise may make regulations prohibiting the manufacture of sugar except by persons holding a licence and having made entry for the pur- 15 pose, and for fixing the date of expiration of the licence, and with a view to securing and collecting the excise duties imposed on sugar and molasses, and to verifying claims for drawback, allowance or subsidy, may make regulations regulating the manufacture of sugar, the use of molasses in a licensed sugar 20 manufactory in the manufacturing of feeding stuffs for stock, and the warehousing and removal from the manufactory of sugar and mclasses, and may by those regulations apply to the excise duties and drawbacks on sugar and to manufacturers of sugar any enactments relating to any duty or drawback of 25 excise or customs and to persons carrying on any trade subject to the laws of excise. If any person acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with, any regulations, made under this Schedule the article in respect of which the offence is committed shall be forfeited, 30 and the person committing the offence shall be liable in respect of each offence to an excise penalty of fifty pounds. To be substituted for Bill previously delivered. British Sugar (Subsidy). To provide for the payment of a subsidy in respect of sugar and molasses manufactured in Great Britain during a period of ten years beginning on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, from beet grown in Great Britain, and to charge a duty of excise on sugar and molasses manufactured in Great Britain and Northern Ireland from beet grown in those countries. Ordered to be brought in by The Chairman of Ways and Means, Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 19 December 1924. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. |