Agricultural Products (Regulation of Import) Act, 1938

Regulation of importation of agricultural products and fishery products.

2.—(1) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, make an order regulating, in such manner and by such means as he thinks proper, the importation of any agricultural product or fishery product or any specified kind (defined in such manner and by reference to such things as the Minister thinks fit) of any agricultural product or any fishery product, and may without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, by such order, provide for any one or more of the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) for prohibiting the importation of such product or such kind of such product, either absolutely or subject to such conditions (including conditions as respects description) as the Minister thinks proper and specifies in such order,

(b) for making specified infringements of such order offences punishable on summary conviction and fixing the penalties for such offences,

(c) for such other matters as appears to the Minister necessary for securing the due operation and enforcement of the scheme of regulation contained in the order.

(2) The Minister may by order revoke or amend any order made under this section including this sub-section.

(3) The Minister shall before making any order under this section consult with the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

(4) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall have the force of law.

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