S.I. No. 47/1932 - Agricultural Committees (Local Inquiries) Regulations, 1932.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1932. No. 47.

AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEES (LOCAL INQUIRIES) REGULATIONS, 1932.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931), that an officer appointed by the Minister for Agriculture to hold a local inquiry may by summons in the prescribed form signed by him require any person to attend at the time and place (not being a place more than thirty miles from the residence of such person) named in such summons, and there and then to give evidence or produce any document in his power, possession, or procurement relating to any matter in question at such inquiry or do both such things, and it is further enacted by sub-section (5) of the said section that the word "prescribed" in that section means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister for Agriculture under that section:

NOW I, Seamus Ó Riain, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the power conferred on me by section 25 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby make the following regulations:

1. These regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Committees (Local Inquiries) Regulations, 1932.

2. Every summons signed under Section 25 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 , by an officer appointed by the Minister for Agriculture to hold a local inquiry shall be in the Form set out in the Schedule hereto.

Given under my Seal of Office this 22nd day of April, 1932.

SEAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.

SCHEDULE.

Form A.G. 32.

AGRICULTURE ACT, 1931 .

AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEES (LOCAL INQUIRIES) REGULATIONS, 1932.

SUMMONS TO ATTEND A LOCAL INQUIRY.

WHEREAS I            of        have been duly appointed by the Minister for Agriculture under sub-section (1) of section 24 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931), to hold a local inquiry in relation to (a)

(a) Specify subject of inquiry.

NOW I           in pursuance of the power conferred on me by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931), hereby require you to attend before me on the     day of     19  at the hour of  at      and there and then to give evidence and to produce any document in your power, possession or procurement relating to the subject of the said inquiry including the documents specified below.

An officer of the Minister for Agriculture.

Specified documents which you are required to produce at the above mentioned inquiry.