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APPENDIX XXIX.

FEES UNDER AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (FRESH MEAT) ACTS, PIGS AND BACON ACTS AND SLAUGHTER OF CATTLE AND SHEEP ACTS.

The Secretary,

Committee of Public Accounts.

With reference to the inquiry on the subject at the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on the 12th April, I have to state that the position in regard to the charging of fees under the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Acts, the Pigs and Bacon Acts and the Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep Acts is as shown on the attached statement. The total amount of fees collected under these Acts during the financial year 1948/49 was £15,359.

I have also to state that with the exception of the last two items on the attached statement all the fees are actually laid down in the Acts which would have to be amended if the fees were changed. In the case of pigs presented for veterinary examination under the Pigs and Bacon Acts, the Act of 1935 prescribes a fee not exceeding 6d. per head and the fee charged, viz., 5d. per head, was fixed with the consent of the Minister for Finance. Payment of the inspection fee under the Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep Acts is a condition attached to the grant of a manufacturing licence under Section 34 of the Act of 1934.

The view of this Department with regard to these fees, as expressed already to the Department of Finance, is that, as the Acts are a State as well as a Trade necessity and as the Minister for Agriculture desires that general and ultimate authority should rest with him and not with the interests concerned, part of the cost of administration should be borne by the State. Further, it would not be equitable to recover the full amount necessary to cover the cost of administration solely from persons engaged in these trades as the benefits of the trades are not confined to such persons; they extend to producers, growers and vendors of feeding-stuffs, employees of transit companies, subsidiary trades concerned with the treatment of hides, fleeces, offals, etc.

17ú Bealtaine, 1951.	(Signed) SEÁN Ó BROIN,
	Secretary,
	Department of Agriculture.

Scale of fees payable under the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Acts, the Pigs and Bacon Acts and the Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep Acts.

I. Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Acts.

(a)	For Registration of Premises				...	...	...	...	£1	0	0
(b)	For animals presented for veterinary examination:—
	Cattle, except calves			...	...	...	...	...	1/-per head.
	Calves	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	3d.	”
	Pigs, of which both pork and offals are intended for
	export		...	...	...	...	...	...	3d.	„
	Pigs, of which the offals only are intended for export								1½d.	„
	Sheep and Lambs			...	...	...	...	...	1½d.	„
(c)	Exporters’ Licences—Minimum fees payable for any year or part of a year ending 30th June, viz.:—
	Beef Exporter’s Licence				...	...	...	...	£50	0	0
	Pork„„				...	...	...	...	£50	0	0
	Mutton „		...	...	...	...	...	...	£25	0	0
	Beef and Pork Licences jointly					...	...	...	£75	0	0
	Beef and Mutton „„					...	...	...	£75	0	0
	Pork and „„„					...	...	...	£75	0	0
	where the holder of a Pork Exporter’s Licence also holds a Bacon Curing Licence (under the Pigs and Bacon Acts), the following minimum fees operate:—
	Bacon Curing and Pork Exporter’s Licence						...	...	Bacon Curing fees only (see Pigs and Bacon Acts).
	Bacon Curing, Pork and Beef Exporter’s Licence								Bacon Curing fees plus £50.
	Bacon Curing, Pork and Mutton Exporter’s Licence							...	Bacon Curing fees plus £25.

II. Pigs and Bacon Acts.

(a)	For Curing and Slaughtering Licence	...	...	£10	0	0
(b)	For pigs presented for veterinary examination		...	5d. per head.

III. Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep Acts.

Inspection fee in respect of canned meat for export

...

1/12d. per 1b.