S.I. No. 131/1949 - Emergency Powers (Distribution of Butter) Order, 1944 (Seventeenth Ration Period) Order, 1949.

S.I. No. 131 of 1949.

EMERGENCY POWERS (DISTRIBUTION OF BUTTER) ORDER, 1944 (SEVENTEENTH RATION PERIOD) ORDER, 1949.

I, DANIEL MORRISSEY, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Article 31 of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (S. R. & O. No. 224 of 1939), as amended by the Emergency Powers (No. 173) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 166 of 1942) (which Orders are continued in force by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946)), hereby order as follows :—

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Emergency Powers (Distribution of Butter) Order, 1944 (Seventeenth Ration Period) Order, 1949.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 28th day of May, 1949.

2. In this Order, the expression " the Principal Order " means the Emergency Powers (Distribution of Butter) Order, 1944 (S. R. & O. No. 121 of 1944) as amended by any subsequent Order.

3. This Order shall be construed as one with the Principal Order.

4. This Order is supplemental to the Principal Order.

5. For the purposes of the Principal Order—

(a) the period (in this Order referred to as the seventeenth ration period) of twenty-six weeks commencing on the 28th day of May, 1949, shall be a ration period ;

(b) page 4 containing coupons marked with the words " Im-Butter ", of a general ration book issued under the Emergency Powers (General Rationing Provisions) Order, 1944 (S. R. & O. No. 130 of 1944), shall be applicable to the seventeenth ration period.

6. For the purposes of the Principal Order, each coupon in page 4 forming part of a general ration book issued under the Emergency Powers (General Rationing Provisions) Order, 1944 (S. R. & O. No. 130 of 1944), and marked with the words " Im-Butter " and a number specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be a butter coupon, but shall be valid only for the ration week commencing on the date set out in the second column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such butter coupon.

SCHEDULE.

RATION WEEK DURING WHICH CERTAIN BUTTER COUPONS ARE VALID.

Number marked on butter coupon	Date of commencement of ration week during which coupon is valid
(1)	(2)
27	28th May, 1949
28	4th June, 1949
29	11th June, 1949
30	18th June, 1949
31	25th June, 1949
32	2nd July, 1949
33	9th July, 1949
34	16th July, 1949
35	23rd July, 1949
36	30th July, 1949
37	6th August, 1949
38	13th August, 1949
39	20th August, 1949
40	27th August, 1949
41	3rd September, 1949
42	10th September, 1949
43	17th September, 1949
44	24th September, 1949
45	1st October, 1949
46	8th October, 1949
47	15th October, 1949
48	22nd October, 1949
49	29th October, 1949
50	5th November, 1949
51	12th November, 1949
52	19th November, 1949

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 10th day of May, 1949.

(Signed) DANIEL MORRISSEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.