Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933

Rates of subsidy.

39.—(1) The Minister for Finance may, from time to time, after consultation with the Minister, by order (in this Part of this Act referred to as a subsidy (rate) order) fix by reference to weight, subject to the provisions of this section, the rate of subsidy to be paid under this Part of this Act on wheat milled at any specified inland mill.

(2) A subsidy (rate) order may relate to several inland mills, and in such case such order may fix separate, or different rates of subsidy in relation to some or all of such mills.

(3) The Minister for Finance may, after consultation with the Minister, by order (in this Part of this Act referred to as a variation order) under this sub-section revoke or amend any subsidy (rate) order.

(4) The rate or the several rates of subsidy fixed by an order under this section shall not exceed one shilling for every four hundred pounds of wheat milled.

(5) Every order under this section shall be laid before Dáil Eireann as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling such order is passed by Dáil Eireann within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which Dáil Eireann has sat after such order is so laid before it, such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.