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Sugar Quotas
SUGAR QUOTAS ACT

CHAPTER 64:02

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Act
12 of 1937

Amended by
172/1961

16 of 1962
136/1976

Current Authorised Pages
Pages Authorised

(inclusive) by L.R.O.
1–8 ..

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Note on Subsidiary Legislation

Sugar Quotas Orders
Sugar Quotas Orders made under section 3(1) of the Act are omitted. See the Schedule to
this Act.

Note on Adaptation
Under paragraph 6 of the Second Schedule to the Law Revision Act (Ch. 3:03) the Commission
amended certain references to public officers in this Chapter. The Minister’s approval of the
amendments was signified by LN 52/1980, but no marginal reference is made to this Notice
where any such amendment is made in the text.

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CHAPTER 64:02

SUGAR QUOTAS ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. The Minister may by Order fix quotas for the manufacture and disposal

of sugar.
4. Restriction on holding surplus stock of sugar.
5. Contraventions.

Penalty.
6. Restriction on export of sugar.
7. Provisions of section 6 to form part of Customs laws.
8. Disposal of excess stock.
9. The Minister may require returns relating to sugar to be submitted.

Penalty for failing to make a return.
10. Consent of Director of Public Prosecutions.

SCHEDULE.

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1950 Ed.
Ch. 23 No. 13.
12 of 1937.

Commencement.

Short title.

Interpretation.

The Minister
may by Order
fix quotas for
the manufacture
and disposal
of sugar.

Schedule.

CHAPTER 64:02

SUGAR QUOTAS ACT

An Act to regulate the manufacture of sugar in Trinidad
and Tobago, the disposal of such sugar, the allocation
to local manufacturers of quotas for exportation and for
sale for local consumption and for other purposes
connected therewith.

[1ST SEPTEMBER 1937]

1. This Act may be cited as the Sugar Quotas Act.

2. In this Act—
“quota” means the quantity of sugar manufactured in Trinidad and

Tobago which each manufacturer of sugar is permitted to sell,
deliver or otherwise dispose of either by exportation or for
consumption in Trinidad and Tobago in accordance with an
Order made under this Act;

“quota period” means any period in respect of which any quota
has been fixed by an Order made under this Act;

“sugar” includes sugar in any of its commercial forms except the
product sold as final molasses.

3. (1) The Minister may by Order fix the quota which each
sugar manufacturer in Trinidad and Tobago shall be permitted—

(a) to export;
(b) to sell or deliver for consumption within Trinidad

and Tobago,
during any quota period specified in the Order, and prescribe the
conditions under which the permission shall be granted.

(2) The quota* Order formerly contained in the Schedule,
hereinafter referred to in this section as the original Order, shall be
in force until varied by an Order made under subsection (1).

*See Schedule to Ordinance No. 12–1937.

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(3) In any variation of the original Order the increase or
decrease in the export quota allotted to each sugar manufacturer
shall bear to that allotted to him under the original Order the same
ratio as the total quantity of sugar permitted to be exported by all
sugar manufacturers under such varied Order bears to the total
amount permitted to be exported by all sugar manufacturers under
the original Order.

(4) No sugar manufacturer shall be required to accept any
additional export quota or part thereof that may be allotted to him.

(5) If any sugar manufacturer does not accept any of the
additional export quota that may be allotted to him, the additional
export quota or part thereof shall be divided amongst the other
sugar manufacturers in the same proportion that the export quota
allotted to each sugar manufacturer under the original Order bears
to the total export quota allotted to all sugar manufacturers under
the original Order.

4. No sugar manufacturer shall manufacture and hold in stock
at any time a quantity of sugar exceeding the quota allotted to the
sugar manufacturer under section 3 plus twenty-five per cent of
the quota.

5. If there is any contravention of any of the provisions of an
Order made under section 3, the owner and the manufacturer of
the sugar the subject matter of the contravention, and any other
person who is a party to the contravention, is liable on summary
conviction to a fine of ten dollars and in addition to a further fine
of not less than five dollars and not more than ten dollars in respect
of each hundredweight of sugar manufactured, exported, sold,
delivered or otherwise disposed of, in contravention of the Order.

6. (1) No sugar other than sugar manufactured by a sugar
manufacturer to whom a quota for export has been allotted by an
Order made under section 3 shall be exported and no such sugar
manufacturer shall export any sugar in excess of the quota allotted
to him by the Order; but this subsection shall not be construed so
as to affect or prohibit the re-exportation of sugar arriving in
Trinidad and Tobago and on board any ship from a place outside
Trinidad and Tobago.

Restriction on
holding surplus
stock of sugar.

Contraventions.

Penalty.

Restriction on
export of sugar.

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Ch. 78:01.

Provisions of
section 6 to
form part of
Customs laws.
Ch. 78:01.

Disposal of
excess stock.

(2) If any sugar is exported or an attempt is made to export
any sugar in contravention of subsection (1) or if any sugar is
brought to any quay or place for the purpose of being exported in
contravention of subsection (1) the sugar shall be forfeited, and
any person concerned in the exportation, attempted exportation,
or bringing of the goods to such quay or place for the purpose of
being so exported, is liable on summary conviction to a fine of
four thousand dollars.

(3) Every sugar manufacturer to whom a quota for
export has been allotted shall make or cause to be made before
shipment due entry of any sugar to be exported in the same manner
as if the entry was required to be made under section 167 of the
Customs Act.

(4) Any sugar manufacturer who fails or neglects to make
entry in accordance with subsection (3) is liable to the penalties
prescribed by the Customs Act to the same extent as if the failure
or neglect constituted a contravention of section 167 of the
Customs Act

7. The provisions of section 6 of this Act shall form part of
the Customs laws as defined in the Customs Act, and the provisions
of such Customs laws shall apply thereto in the same manner and
to the same extent as if the provisions of section 6 were included
in and formed part of the Customs Act.

8. (1) The Minister may by Order declare in what manner
any sugar manufactured in excess of the fixed quota plus twenty-
five per cent which each sugar manufacturer is permitted to hold
in stock shall be disposed of, and may order the seizure and
destruction of any such excess stock of sugar. The manufacturer
shall not be entitled to claim compensation for any sugar seized,
destroyed or otherwise disposed of in accordance with such Order.

(2) The Minister may authorise any person with or without
assistants to enter any factory, building or land in or on which any
sugar is stored or kept to ascertain whether the provisions of any
Order made under subsection (1) has been complied with and if
any such Order has not been complied with, then to seize, destroy
or dispose of any sugar in accordance with such Order.

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The Minister
may require
returns relating
to sugar to
be submitted.
[16 of 1962].

Penalty for
failing to make
a return.

Consent of
Director of
Public
Prosecutions.
[172/1961
136/1976].

(3) Any person who fails or neglects to comply with the
provisions of an Order made under subsection (1) and any person
who assaults, impedes or obstructs or who aids or abets any other
person in assaulting, impeding or obstructing any person authorised
to exercise any of the powers under subsection (2) or any person
aiding and assisting him is liable on summary conviction to a fine
of two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months.

9. (1) The Minister may require any person by Order served
on him or published in the Gazette to make and submit to the
Minister, within such time as may be specified in the Order, a return
in the form of a statutory declaration giving full and accurate
particulars of all or any of the following matters:

(a) the sugar manufactured by him during any period
specified in the Order;

(b) the stocks of sugar belonging to him or in his
possession, power or control on any particular
date or during any period specified in the Order
the place of storage of the same, and, if such sugar
was acquired by him, the person from whom he
acquired the same;

(c) the sugar disposed of by him either by sale or
delivery locally or by exportation during any
period specified in the Order;

(d) an estimate of his total sugar production and of
the quantity intended to be exported during any
period;

(e) any other particulars required for the purposes
of this Act.

(2) Any person who fails or neglects to comply with
such Order is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one
thousand dollars.

10. Proceedings under this Act shall not be instituted except
by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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*SCHEDULE

SUGAR QUOTAS ORDER

Note—The Sugar Quotas Order is changed annually and the current Order
is therefore not published here.

Section 3(2).

*See Note on page 2.

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