Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935
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Partial continuance of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1932. |
5.—(1) Notwithstanding the expiration on the 31st day of March, 1935, of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1932 (No. 10 of 1932), the following provisions shall have effect and shall be deemed to have come into operation immediately upon and to have had effect as from the said expiration, that is to say:— | |
(a) every levy which became due and payable before but was unpaid at the expiration of the said Act shall be payable and recoverable under the said Act; | ||
(b) every sum received or recovered by the Minister by virtue of the next preceding paragraph of this section shall, until the butter fund maintained under the said Act has been wound up in pursuance of this Act, be paid into the said butter fund and shall thereafter be paid into the dairy produce (price stabilisation) fund; | ||
(c) every bounty which would have been payable under the said Act (if it had not expired) in respect of goods exported from Saorstát Eireann before such expiration but was not in fact paid before such expiration, shall be payable under and in accordance with the said Act; | ||
(d) every bounty payable by virtue of the next preceding paragraph of this section shall, until the said butter fund has been wound up in pursuance of this Act, be paid out of the said butter fund and thereafter shall be paid out of the dairy produce (price stabilisation) fund; | ||
(e) the said butter fund shall be maintained and managed under and in accordance with the said Act until it is wound up in pursuance of this Act; | ||
(f) every person alleged to have committed an offence under any section of the said Act Before the expiration thereof may, after such expiration, be charged with and prosecuted for such offence and, if found guilty thereof, be punished therefor in accordance with the said Act; | ||
(g) the said Act shall be deemed to continue and to have continued in force so far and for so long as may be necessary to give full force and effect to the provisions of this section. | ||
(2) No action or other legal proceeding whatsoever, whether civil or criminal, shall lie or be maintainable against the Revenue Commissioners or against any officer of customs and excise for or in respect of any act or thing done, whether before or after the passing of this Act, by the Revenue Commissioners or by any officer of customs and excise for the purpose or in the course of preventing the importation into Saorstát Eireann, during the period which began on the 1st day of April, 1935, and ended on the 27th day of April, 1935, of any article the importation of which into Saorstát Eireann during that period without a licence in that behalf would have been unlawful if the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1932 , and every order made under that Act which was in force on the 31st day of March, 1935, had continued to be in force during the whole, of the said period. |