Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 to 1933 (English), The Act of 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 42) enables schemes to be made for regulating the marketing of agricultural products, foods and drinks made or derived therefrom, and fleeces and skins of animals, to establish marketing boards in connection with such schemes, to establish funds for loans to these boards, and to encourage agricultural co-operation, research and education. The Act of 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 31) amends and extends the 1931 Act by provisions for restrictions on the importation and sale of agricultural products and for the production of such secondary agricultural products wholly or partly manufactured or derived from another agricultural products as may be specified by an order in force under s. 7, Part II., of the Act of 1933. Schemes under the Act of 1931 may be submitted by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries after consultation with the Board of Trade by laying a draft before each House of Parliament, and if each House resolves that the scheme be approved, the Minister may make an order in the terms of the draft. Schemes under the 1931 Act must provide inter alia for penalties on offences by registered producers and for references to arbitration, for the prohibition of sales by persons who are not registered producers or exempt from the scheme (s. 5). Under the Act of 1933, the Board of Trade after consultation with the Minister of Agricultural and Fisheries may, under similar conditions, make an order regulating the importation into the United Kingdom of agricultural products of kinds which are the subject of schemes under the Acts and cannot be effectively developed without restricting importation, and such restriction may relate either to quantity or description of the product, the interests of consumers being taken into consideration, see s. 1. The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries may at the same time regulate the sales by producers or Boards in the United Kingdom of products of a kind affected by the importation order. Development Schemes for the production of secondary products (supra) may include penalties on every person who produces any article in contravention of such scheme [s. 6 (5) of 1933]. Part IV of the Act of 1933, extending the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marketing) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 19), enacts that sales of more than 24 eggs produced in Great Britain must be by weight or under grade designation. The Acts apply to Scotland, with modifications, but not to Northern Ireland. See also the Agricultural Marketing (No. 2) Act, 1933 (24 Geo. 5, c. 1), and the Milk Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 51). Schemes and Orders restricting importation have been made in connection with a variety of agricultural products such as Hops, Pigs, Bacon and Milk.
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