S.I. No. 402/1943 - Creamery Butter (Levy) Order, 1943.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1943. No. 402.

CREAMERY BUTTER (LEVY) ORDER, 1943.

I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do by this Order make the following regulations :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Creamery Butter (Levy) Order 1943.

2. The Creamery Butter (Levy) Order, 1942 ( S. R. & O. No. 385 of 1942 ) and the Creamery Butter (Levy) (No. 2) Order, 1942 ( S. R. & O. No. 414 of 1942 ) are revoked as on and from the 29th day of November, 1943.

3. In this Order—

the expression " butter (wholesale) dealer " means a person who carries on the business of selling creamery butter by wholesale only, but does not include a company which purchases creamery butter mainly for resale to another company any of the shares in which is held by such first-mentioned company or by any person who is a shareholder in such first-mentioned company.

4. The rate of levy on creamery butter manufactured on or before the 30th day of November, 1943, other than creamery butter sold on or before the 28th day of November, 1943, shall be :—

(a) on butter sold to the proprietor of a creamery or a butter (wholesale) dealer, 3 ½ per cwt. ;

(b) on butter sold to a purchaser other than the proprietor of a creamery or a butter (wholesale) dealer ;

(i) where the quantity sold equals or exceeds 10 cwt., 35/- per cwt. ;

(ii) where the quantity sold is less than 10 cwt., 32/8 per cwt.

5. The rate of levy on creamery butter manufactured on or after the 1st day of December, 1943, shall be :—

(a) on butter sold to the proprietor of a creamery or a butter (wholesale) dealer, 4d. per cwt. ;

(b) on butter sold to a purchaser other than the proprietor of a creamery or a butter (wholesale) dealer :

(i) where the quantity sold equals or exceeds 10 cwt., 4/2 per cwt. ;

(ii) where the quantity sold is less than 10 cwt., ¼ per cwt.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 26th day of November, 1943.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.