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S.I. No. 141/1962 - Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage For Cereal Year 1961-62) (Variation) Order, 1962.

S.I. No. 141 of 1962.

HOME-GROWN WHEAT (NATIONAL PERCENTAGE FOR CEREAL YEAR 1961-62) (VARIATION) ORDER, 1962.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935) that the Minister for Agriculture, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, shall, before the commencement of every cereal year make, in the case of the cereal year commencing next after the passing of the said Act, as soon as may be after such passing or, in the case of any other cereal year, not later than eight months before the commencement of such cereal year, an order fixing for the purposes of the said section 6 a percentage in respect of such cereal year, and the Minister for Agriculture may, after the like consultation, during such cereal year by a further order or orders vary the amount of such percentage :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Agriculture, in pursuance of the said sub-section (1) of the said section 6, made the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1961-62) Order, 1960 ( Statutory Instrument No. 262 of 1960 ) and, for the purposes of the said section 6, thereby fixed 75 per cent. as the percentage in respect of the cereal year commencing on the 1st day of September, 1961, and ending on the 31st day of August, 1962 :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Agriculture has consulted with the Minister for Industry and Commerce in regard to the making of this Order :

NOW, THEREFORE, I, PATRICK SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935) do hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1961-62) (Variation) Order, 1962.

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

3. Paragraph 3 (which fixes for the purposes of section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935) the percentage in respect of the cereal year commencing on the 1st day of September, 1961) of the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1961-62) Order, 1960 ( Statutory Instrument No. 262 of 1960 ) is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the words " fifty-seven per cent." for the words " seventy-five per cent." now contained therein and the said Order shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office this 3rd day of August, 1962.

P. SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order requires licensed millers to mill 57 per cent. (instead of 75 per cent. as originally prescribed) of their milling quotas in the form of home-grown wheat during the cereal year commencing on 1st September, 1961.