S.I. No. 140/1961 - Millable Wheat Regulations, 1961.

S.I. No. 140 of 1961.

MILLABLE WHEAT REGULATIONS, 1961.

I, PATRICK SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933 (No. 7 of 1933), and after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Millable Wheat Regulations, 1961.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1961.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

4. (1) The standard to which wheat must conform in order to be classed as millable shall be as follows, that is to say, such wheat must be—

(a) commercially clean,

(b) in sound and sweet condition,

(c) capable, having regard to the methods customarily used in the milling industry for the cleaning and conditioning of wheat, of being milled into flour suitable for human consumption, and

(d) of a bushel weight of not less than 54 pounds.

(2) The reference in this Regulation to a bushel weight shall be construed as a reference to such weight determined by means of—

(a) a weighing instrument of a type corresponding to the pattern of the weighing instrument certified by the Minister for Industry and Commerce by Certificate numbered 152 S.E., under section 6 of the Weights and Measures Act, 1904, or

(b) a weighing instrument of a type corresponding to the pattern of the weighing instrument certified by the Minister for Industry and Commerce by Certificate numbered 153 S.E., under section 6 of the Weights and Measures Act, 1904.

5. The Millable Wheat Regulations, 1959 ( S.I. No. 114 of 1959 ), are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 12th day of July, 1961.

PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Order fixes a revised standard for millable wheat and revokes the Millable Wheat Regulations, 1959.