No. 593/1935:

BUTTER (LEVY AND BOUNTY) (No. 2) ORDER, 1935.

BUTTER (LEVY AND BOUNTY) (No. 2) ORDER, 1935.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 18 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), that the Minister for Agriculture may from time to time by order make regulations prescribing the rates of levy under Part III of the said Act on creamery butter and non-creamery butter and may at any time revoke or amend any such order and may by any such order prescribe different rates of levy on different substances and on different classes (defined in such manner as the said Minister shall think proper) of any particular substance and the date on which any particular rate of levy shall come into force:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by section 34 of the said Act that the Minister for Agriculture may from time to time by order make regulations prescribing the rates of bounty under Part VII of the said Act on creamery butter and non-creamery butter and may at any time revoke or amend any such order and may by any such order prescribe different rates of bounty on different substances and on different classes (defined in such manner as the said Minister shall think proper) of the same substance and the date on which any particular rate of bounty shall come into force:

AND WHEREAS the Butter Marketing Committee is a central marketing organisation within the meaning of section 49 of the said Act and is operating under rules approved by the Minister for Agriculture:

NOW, I, Seamas 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 Butter (Levy and Bounty) (No. 2) Order, 1935.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923) applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The Butter (Levy and Bounty) Order, 1935 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 354 of 1935), is revoked as on and from the 1st day of August, 1935.

4. (1) The rate of levy on creamery butter shall be whichever of the following rates is applicable to any particular class of creamery butter, that is to say:—

(a) on creamery butter which is put into cold store under and in accordance with an arrangement sanctioned by the Minister for Agriculture, the rate of twenty-six shillings the hundredweight, and

(b) on all other creamery butter, the rate of thirty-five shillings the hundredweight.

(2) The rates of levy mentioned in and prescribed by this paragraph shall come into force as on and from the 1st day of August, 1935.

5. The rate of levy on non-creamery butter shall be thirty-five shillings the hundredweight and such rate shall come into force as on and from the 1st day of August, 1935.

6. (1) The rate of bounty on creamery butter shall be whichever of the following rates is applicable to any particular class of creamery butter, that is to say:—

(a) on creamery butter which is delivered on sale in Saorstát Eireann and on which a levy at the appropriate rate has been paid, the rate of fifty-three shillings the hundredweight, and

(b) on creamery butter which is not delivered on sale in Saorstát Eireann and which is exported by the Butter Marketing Committee, the rate of eighteen shillings the hundredweight, and

(c) on creamery butter which is not delivered on sale in Saorstát Eireann and which is exported by any person other than the Butter Marketing Committee, the rate of fifteen shillings the hundredweight.

(2) The rates of bounty mentioned in and prescribed by this paragraph shall come into force as on and from the 1st day of August, 1935.

7. The rate of bounty on non-creamery butter shall be eighteen shillings the hundredweight, and such rate shall come into force as on and from the 1st day of August, 1935.

Given under my Seal of Office this 31st day of

July, 1935.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.