S.I. No. 502/1941 - Agricultural Produce (Eggs) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 1941.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1941. No. 502.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) (AMENDMENT) (No. 3) REGULATIONS, 1941.

I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Act, 1939 (No. 2 of 1939), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do by this Order make the following regulations :—

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 1941.

(2) These Regulations shall be included in the Regulations which may be cited together as the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1939 to 1941.

2. Article 24 of the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1939 (S.R. and O., No. 169 of 1939) is hereby amended by the deletion of paragraphs (2) and (3) and the substitution therefor of the following paragraphs, that is to say :—

" (2) Registered Dealers. Eggs shall not be kept on premises registered in the Register of Dealers—

(a) during the period commencing on the 1st day of March in any year and ending on the 31st day of October in that year, for a period exceeding seventy-two hours from the time such eggs were acquired, or

(b) during the period commencing on the 1st day of November in any year and ending on the last day of February in next following year, for a period exceeding six days from the time such eggs were acquired.

(3) In computing for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Article the period of seventy-two hours mentioned therein and in computing for the purposes of the said paragraph (2) the period of six days mentioned therein, no account shall be taken of any Sunday or any public or Church holiday on which no work is done on the registered premises in respect of which any such period is being so computed. "

Given under my Official Seal this 6th day of October, 1941.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.