Flax Act, 1936

The standard price.

15.—(1) The Executive Council shall, by order made at or within the time mentioned in the next following sub-section of this section, fix in respect of every sale season the price per stone for flax grown and scutched in Saorstát Eireann which is to be the standard price for the purposes of this Act for such flax in such sale season.

(2) Every order made by the Executive Council under the next preceding sub-section of this section shall—

(a) in the case of the order so made in respect of the sale season beginning on the 1st day of October, 1936, be made as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, and

(b) in the case of the order so made in respect of any subsequent sale season, be made not later than the 31st day of January next preceding such sale season.

(3) In this Act the expression “standard price” means a price fixed under this section as a standard price for the purposes of this Act.