S.I. No. 103/1957:

LEVY (BUTTER STOCKS) (No. 2) ORDER 1957.

LEVY (BUTTER STOCKS) (No. 2) ORDER 1957.

I, PROINSIAS MAC AOGÁIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1941 (No. 9 of 1941), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Levy (Butter Stocks) (No. 2) Order, 1957.

2. In this Order " registered proprietor " and " butter trader have the meanings respectively assigned to them by sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1941 (No. 9 of 1941).

3. The 9th day of May, 1957, is hereby appointed to be the appointed date for the purposes of this Order.

4. There shall be paid to the Minister for Agriculture by every registered proprietor and every butter trader who holds or on whose behalf there is held anywhere on the appointed date not less than three hundredweight of creamery butter (not being creamery butter intended for export and subsequently exported) a levy on such butter at the rate of 59s. 0d. per cwt.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 8th day of May, 1957.

PROINSIAS MAC AOGÁIN,

Minister for Agriculture.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order imposes a levy of 59s. 0d. per cwt. on stocks of creamery butter held on the 9th May, 1957, by proprietors of premises registered in either the register of butter factories or the register of non-manufacturing exporters kept under the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 , and by persons who carry on the business of selling butter by wholesale or retail.