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S.I. No. 109/1940 - Creamery Butter (Levy) Order, 1940.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1940. No. 109.

CREAMERY BUTTER (LEVY) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by 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 or amend any such order, and may by any such order prescribe different rates of levy on different substances and on different classes (defined in such manner as the said Minister shall think proper) of any particular substance and 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) Order, 1940.

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

3. The Creamery Butter (Levy) (No. 4) Order, 1939 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 398 of 1939), is revoked as on and from the 1st day of April, 1940.

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 was put into cold store on or before the 30th day of September, 1939, under and in accordance with an arrangement sanctioned by the Minister for Agriculture, the rate of seven shillings the hundredweight.

(b) On creamery butter which was 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 ten shillings and sixpence the hundredweight.

(c) On other creamery butter manufactured on or before the 30th day of November, 1939, the rate of eighteen shillings the hundredweight.

(d) On creamery butter manufactured during the period 1st December, 1939, to 31st March, 1940, the rate of seven shillings the hundredweight.

(e) On creamery butter manufactured on or after the 1st day of April, 1940, the rate of nine 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 April, 1940.

Given under my Official Seal this 29th day of March, 1940.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.