No. 63/1930:

EXPORT OF FRESH MEAT (PROHIBITION) ORDER, 1930.

EXPORT OF FRESH MEAT (PROHIBITION) ORDER, 1930.

WHEREAS the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Act, 1930 (No. 10 of 1930), in so far as it applies or relates to beef, veal and the offals of cattle, pork and the offals of pigs, and mutton, lamb and the offals of sheep, will come into operation on the 1st day of September, 1930, by virtue of an Order entitled the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Act, 1930 (Beef, Pork and Mutton) (Commencement) Order, 1930 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1930, No. 59).

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 42 of the said Act that the Minister for Agriculture may by order, if and whenever he thinks fit, prohibit for so long as such order remains in force the export of any fresh meat or offals which is or are in any particular condition or from which any specified part or organ of the animal is missing or has been removed or to which any specified preservative or other matter has been added or which consists or consist only of particular detached portions or of portions of any particular size or other characteristic:

AND WHEREAS the making of this Order before the commencement of the said Act in so far as it applies or relates as aforesaid is expedient for the purpose of bringing the said Act in so far as it applies or relates as aforesaid into operation on the said 1st day of September, 1930:

NOW, I, PATRICK HOGAN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the joint operation of sub-section (1) of section 42 of the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Act, 1930 (No. 10 of 1930), and sub-section (3) of section II of the Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows, that is to say:—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Export of Fresh Meat (Prohibition) Order, 1930, and shall come into force on the 1st day of September, 1930.

2. In this Order the expression "fresh meat" means and includes beef, veal, pork, mutton and lamb.

3. 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.

4. So long as this Order remains in force, the export of the following kinds of fresh meat is hereby prohibited, that is to say:—

(a) Scrap meat, that is to say, meat which consists of scraps, trimmings or other pieces (whether with or without bone) of such shape or in such condition as to afford insufficient means of identification with definite parts of a carcase, and which has not before exportation been made ready for human consumption in the form of a sausage or other prepared or manufactured article of food;

(b) meat comprising the ribs or the abdominal wall from which the pleura or the peritoneum has been detached;

(c) the carcase of a pig having the head in its natural state of attachment to the carcase, but not having the sub-maxillary, prescapular, precrural, and popliteal glands in their natural position;

(d) a severed part of the carcase of a pig (including the whole carcase without the head) from which a prescapular, precrural, or popliteal gland has been taken out;

(e) the head of a pig without the sub-maxillary glands.

Given under my Seal of Office this 1st day of August, 1930.

(Signed) P. HOGAN,

Minister for Agriculture.