S.I. No. 183/1948 - Emergency Powers (Distribution of Butter) Order, 1944 (Fifteenth Ration Period) Order, 1948.

S.I. No. 183 of 1948.

EMERGENCY POWERS (DISTRIBUTION OF BUTTER) ORDER, 1944 (FIFTEENTH RATION PERIOD) ORDER, 1948.

I, DANIEL MORRISSEY, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Article 31 of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (S. R. & O. No. 224 of 1939), as amended by the Emergency Powers (No. 173) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 166 of 1942) (which Orders are continued in force by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946)), hereby order as follows :—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Emergency Powers (Distribution of Butter) Order, 1944 (Fifteenth Ration Period) Order, 1948.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 29th day of May, 1948.

2. In this Order, the expression " the Principal Order " means the Emergency Powers (Distribution of Butter) Order, 1944 (S. R. & O. No. 121 of 1944), as amended by any subsequent Order.

3. This Order shall be construed as one with the Principal Order.

4. This Order is supplemental to the Principal Order.

5. For the purposes of the Principal Order—

(a) the period (in this Order referred to as the fifteenth ration period) of twenty-six weeks commencing on the 29th day of May, 1948, shall be a ration period;

(b) page 39 of a general ration book issued under the Emergency Powers (General Rationing Provisions) Order, 1944 (S. R. & O. No. 130 of 1944), shall be applicable to the fifteenth ration period.

6. For the purposes of the Principal Order, each coupon forming part of a general ration book issued under the Emergency Powers General Rationing Provisions) Order, 1944 (S. R. & O. No. 130 of 1944), and marked with a letter and a number specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be a butter coupon, but shall be valid only for the ration week commencing on the date set out in the second column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such butter coupon.

SCHEDULE.

RATION WEEK DURING WHICH CERTAIN BUTTER COUPONS ARE VALID.

Letter and number marked on butter coupon	Date of commencement of ration week during which coupon is valid
(1)	(2)
R.1	29th May, 1948.
R.2	5th June, 1948.
R.3	12th June, 1948.
R.4	19th June, 1948.
R.5	26th June, 1948.
R.6	3rd July 1948.
R.7	10th July, 1948.
R.8	17th July, 1948.
R.9	24th July, 1948.
R. 10	31st July, 1948.
R. 11	7th August, 1948.
R. 12	14th August, 1948.
R. 13	21st August, 1948.
R. 14	28th August, 1948.
R. 15	4th September, 1948.
R. 16	11th September, 1948.
R. 17	18th september, 1948.
R. 18	25th September, 1948
R. 19	2nd October, 1948
R. 20	9th October, 1948.
R. 21	16th October, 1948.
R. 22	23rd October, 1948.
R. 23	30th October, 1948
R. 24	6th November, 1948.
R. 25	13th November, 1948.
R. 26	20th November, 1948.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 22nd day of May, 1948.

(Signed) DANIEL MORRISSEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.