{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1891/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1891/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/54-55/70",
  "legislation_title": "Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1891",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-and-fairs-weighing-of-cattle-act-1891",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application of Act to auction marts.",
  "text": "(1) An auctioneer shall not, unless exempted by order of the Board of Agriculture from the requirements of this section, sell cattle at any mart where cattle are habitually or periodically sold, unless there are provided at that mart similar facilities for weighing cattle as are required by the principal Act and this Act in the case of cattle sold at a market or fair to which the principal Act applies.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) If any such auctioneer makes default in complying with the requirements of this section, the auctioneer, or, if he is in the employment of any person, the person by whom he is employed, shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale, or in case of a continuing offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during which the offence continues.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss.3, 4(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S.4(4) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 amended by Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Act 1926 (c. 21), s. 2; power to extend s. 4 conferred by Agriculture Act 1967 (c. 22), s. 4(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/54-55/70/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:41.658877+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}