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Act and Orders made thereunder, and as to the necessity of complying
with the requirements thereof.
The Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1928.
The above Act, dated August 3rd, 1928, provides for the
grading and marking of agricultural produce.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries may, by regulations
made under this Act, prescribe such designations (in this
Act referred to as "grade designations") as he may consider
appropriate to indicate the quality of any articles of agricultural
produce.
Where any person sells any article of agricultural produce
to which a grade designation is applied it shall be deemed to be
a term of the contract of sale that the quality of the article
accords with the statutory definition indicated by the grade
designation.
A grade designation shall be deemed to be applied to an
article if it is used when the article is sold or delivered or exposed
or offered for sale in any manner calculated to lead to the belief
that the quality of the article accords with the statutory definition
indicated by the grade designation.
Penalties are provided where it is proved that any person has
forged any grade designation mark or has used in connection with
any article any mark nearly resembling a grade designation mark
as to be calculated to deceive.
Under this Act Regulations cited as the Agricultural Produce
(Grading and Marking) (Eggs) Regulations, dated December 15th,
1928', were made by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries as
to Grade Designations and Grade Designation Marks for Eggs
produced in England and Wales, and as to the marking of eggs
which have been subjected to any process of preservation.
Grade designations to indicate the quality of hen and duck
eggs produced in England and Wales are respectively as follows:
"Special," "Standard" and "Pullet Standard," "Special
(Duck)," "Standard (Duck)," "Ducklet Standard," and to be
of a specified weight and condition as set out in the Schedule to
the Regulations.
Under Section 4 of these Regulations methods are prescribed
for marking any preserved eggs to which Section 3 of the Agricultural
Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1928, applies.
It is provided that any preserved eggs as above described
shall be marked conspicuously and legibly on the shell with the
word "Preserved" in letters not less than 1/16-inch in height,
enclosed in a circle of not less than ½-inch diameter.
Section 5 provides under certain conditions that any British
egg which has been kept in cold storage or chemical storage shall
in the former case be marked conspicuously and legibly on the
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