Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1956

Restriction on purposes for which butter may be sold, bought or used.

5.—(1) The Minister may by regulations provide that a person shall not buy, sell or use butter to which this section applies for any purpose other than ordinary household use or a use authorised by a permit granted by the Minister.

(2) Regulations under this section may provide for the grant of permits for the purposes of the regulations and for the attachment of conditions to such permits.

(3) There shall be charged, levied and paid on the grant of a permit under regulations under this section such (if any) fee as the Minister for Finance shall from time to time direct.

(4) All fees charged and levied by virtue of this section shall be collected and taken in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall from time to time direct and shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in accordance with the directions of that Minister.

(5) The Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, shall not apply in respect of any fees charged and levied by virtue of this section.

(6) In this section “butter to which this section applies” means butter which is—

(a) creamery butter,

(b) butter which is a blend of creamery butter and butter not manufactured in a creamery, or

(c) imported butter.