1476
No. 20 of 1919.
RICE.
Board to fix compensation.
No addition for compulsory purchase.
Prohibition of non-compliance with order.
Effect of direction or order on prior contracts.
Prohibition
the
(3) For the purpose of determining the amount of compensation payable for any rice taken under sub-section (1) the Governor shall appoint a board consisting of five persons, of whom one shall be a judge or stipendiary magistrate, two shall be officers either in the Civil Government of the Colony or in His Majesty's naval, military or air service, and the other two shall be inhabitants of the Colony. All questions referred to the said board shall in case of a difference of opinion be decided by the votes of the majority of the members. The judge or stipendiary magistrate shall be the chairman of the board.
(4) The said board, in fixing the price to be paid for rice taken under sub-section (1), shall not make any addition on account of the purchase being compulsory.
(5) Every person who refuses or neglects to obey or comply with any order made under this section or does anything whereby the execution of any such order is prevented or hindered, or with intent to prevent or hinder the execution of any such order, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
3. If any person, by obeying any order made under section 2 (1), is prevented from fulfilling any contract, such person shall not be deemed to have thereby committed a breach of contract but such contract shall be deemed to be cancelled so far as its fulfilment may be prevented by any such order.
4. The total proceeds of all sales of rice for consumption in the Colony shall not recoup to the Government more than the total cost of purchasing the same together with the expenses incidental to such purchase and sale.
Government on total proceeds of sales of rice.
Power to
5. The Governor may from time to time and as often as occasion may require by proclamation prescribe-
fix retail price of rice and prohibition of sale except at such price.
(a) the price for which rice of any particular standard Government quality, as defined by section 6,
(b) the maximum price for which any particular quality of rice, other than a standard Government quality,
may be sold by retail in any particular district of the Colony, and any person who in breach of any such proclamation sells
--* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
1476
No. 20 of 1919.
RICE.
Board to fix compensa- tion.
No addition for com- pulsory purchase.
Prohibition of non- compliance with order.
Effect of direction or order on prior con- tracts.
Prohibition
the
(3) For the purpose of determining the amount of compen- sation payable for any rice taken under sub-section (1) the Governor shall appoint a board consisting of five persons, of whom one shall be a judge or stipendiary magistrate, two shall be officers either in the Civil Government of the Colony or in His Majesty's naval, military or air service, and the other two shall be inhabitants of the Colony. All questions referred to the said board shall in case of a difference of opinion be decided by the votes of the majority of the members. The judge or stipendiary magistrate shall be the chairman of the board.
(4) The said board, in fixing the price to be paid for rice taken under sub-section (1), shall not make any addition on account of the purchase being compulsory.
(5) Every person who refuses or neglects to obey or comply with any order made under this section or does anything whereby the execution of any such order is prevented or hindered, or with intent to prevent or hinder the execution of any such order, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
3. If any person, by obeying any order made under section 2 (1), is prevented from fulfilling any contract, such person shall not be deemed to have thereby committed a breach of contract but such contract shall be deemed to be cancelled so far as its fulfilment may be prevented by any such order.
4. The total proceeds of all sales of rice for consumption in of profit by the Colony shall not recoup to the Government more than the total cost of purchasing the same together with the expenses incidental to such purchase and sale.
Government on total proceeds of sales of rice.
Power to
5. The Governor may from time to time and as often as Governor to occasion may require by proclamation prescribe-
fix retail
price of rice and prohibi- tion of sale except at such price.
(a) the price for which rice of any particular standard Government quality, as defined by section 6,
(b) the maximum price for which any particular quality of rice, other than a standard Government quality,
may be sold by retail in any particular district of the Colony, and any person who in breach of any such proclamation sells
--* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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