S.I. No. 109/1954:

HOME-GROWN WHEAT (STORAGE AND DRYING PLANT FOR CEREAL YEAR 1954-55) ORDER, 1954.

HOME-GROWN WHEAT (STORAGE AND DRYING PLANT FOR CEREAL YEAR 1954-55) ORDER, 1954.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935) that the Minister for Agriculture with the consent of the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, before the commencement of any cereal year, make an order (in the said Act referred to as a home-grown wheat (storage and drying plant) order) requiring each person who is the holder of a milling licence in respect of a mill, which is a licensed mill at the commencement of such cereal year, and the quota for which for such cereal year exceeds a specified amount of wheat, to provide in relation to such mill before the commencement of such cereal year stores of a capacity sufficient to accommodate a specified proportion of the home-grown wheat quota for such mill in respect of such year and drying plant capable of drying grain at the rate of a specified quantity per day of twenty-four hours in respect of every hundred tons of such home-grown wheat quota, to use such accommodation for such specified proportion, and to use such drying plant for drying so much of such home-grown wheat quota as requires drying :

NOW, THEREFORE, I, THOMAS WALSH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling do hereby, with the consent of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, testified by his signature hereto, make the following Order, that is to say :--

1. This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Wheat (Storage and Drying Plant for Cereal Year 1954-55) Order, 1954.

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

3. Each person who is the holder of a milling licence in respect of a mill, which is a licensed mill at the commencement of the cereal year commencing on the 1st day of September, 1954, and ending on the 31st day of August, 1955, and the quota for which for such cereal year exceeds ten thousand barrels of wheat, is hereby required to do the following things, that is to say :--

(a) to provide in relation to such mill before the commencement of such cereal year (i) stores of a capacity sufficient to accommodate the following proportion of the home-grown wheat quota for such mill in respect of such year, namely seventy per cent, and (ii) drying plant capable of drying grain at the rate of two and one-half tons per day of twenty-four hours in respect of every hundred tons of such home-grown wheat quota ;

(b) to use such accommodation for such proportion ; and

(c) to use such drying plant for drying so much of such home-grown wheat quota as requires drying.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office this 14th day of May, 1954.

(Signed) THOMAS WALSH,

Minister for Agriculture

I consent to the foregoing Order.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.