S.I. No. 317/1939 - Creamery Butter (Levy) (No. 3) Order, 1939.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1939. No. 317.

CREAMERY BUTTER (LEVY) (No. 3) ORDER, 1939.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 18 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), that the Minister for Agriculture may from time to time by order make regulations prescribing the rates of levy under Part III of the said Act on creamery butter and may at any time by order revoke any such order ; AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of the said section that the said Minister may by regulations made under the said section prescribe different rates of levy on different classes (defined in such manner as the said Minister shall think proper) of any particular substance and may prescribe the date on which any particular rate of levy shall come into force :

NOW, I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do by this order make the following regulations :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Creamery Butter (Levy) (No. 3) Order, 1939.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The Creamery Butter (Levy) (No. 2) Order, 1939 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 177 of 1939), is revoked as on and from the 1st day of October, 1939.

4.—(1) The rate of levy on creamery butter shall be whichever of the following rates is applicable to any particular class of creamery butter, that is to say :—

(a) on creamery butter which is put into cold store during the month of October, 1939, under and in accordance with an arrangement sanctioned by the Minister for Agriculture, the rate of three shillings and sixpence the hundredweight ; and

(b) on all other creamery butter the rate of eleven shillings the hundredweight.

(2) The rates of levy mentioned in and prescribed by this paragraph shall come into force as on and from the 1st day of October, 1939.

Given under my Official Seal this 28th day of September, 1939.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.