S.I. No. 16/1928 - The Sale of Food and Drugs Acts Adaptation Order, 1928.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1928. No. 16.

THE SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS ADAPTATION ORDER, 1928.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 12 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) that the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann may from time to time by order make all such general or specific adaptations of or modifications in any British Statute which in the opinion of the Executive Council are necessary in order to enable such statute to have full force and effect in Saorstát Eireann :

AND WHEREAS in the opinion of the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann the adaptations intended to be made by this Order in the Margarine Act, 1887, and in the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899 (being British Statutes within the meaning of the said Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 ) are necessary in order to enable those statutes to have full force and effect in Saorstát Eireann :

NOW, THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of Saorstát Eireann, in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 12 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922) and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts Adaptation Order, 1928.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

3. The references contained in section 8 of the Margarine Act, 1887, to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall be construed as references to Saorstát Eireann and the said Act shall have effect accordingly.

4. The reference contained in the following sub-sections, that is to say :—

Sub-section (1) of section 1,

Sub-section (1) of section 2

Sub-section (2) of section 3, and

Sub-section (3) of section 20

of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, to the United Kingdom shall be construed as a reference to Saorstát Eireann and the said Act shall have effect accordingly.

Dublin

This 16th day of April, 1928.