S.I. No. 148/1972 - Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage For Cereal Year 1971-72) (Variation) Order, 1972.

S.I. No. 148 of 1972.

HOME-GROWN WHEAT (NATIONAL PERCENTAGE FOR CEREAL YEAR 1971-72) (VARIATION) ORDER, 1972.

I, JAMES GIBBONS, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in excercise of the powers conferred on me by section 6 (1) of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935), as adapted by the Agriculture (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1965 ( S.I. No. 146 of 1965 ), and by the Wheat Milling (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1968 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1968 ), hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1971-72) (Variation) Order, 1972.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. Article 3 of the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1971-72) Order, 1970 ( S.I. No. 293 of 1970 ), is hereby amended by the substitution of " fifty-nine per cent " for " seventy-five per cent ".

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 12th day of June, 1972.

JAMES GIBBONS,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order requires licensed millers to mill 59 per cent. (instead of 75 per cent. as originally prescribed) of their milling quotas in the form of home-grown wheat during the cereal year commencing on 1st September 1971.