No. 243/1936:

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (MAIZE MEAL MIXTURE) REGULATIONS, 1936.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (MAIZE MEAL MIXTURE) REGULATIONS, 1936.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 29 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1936 (No. 30 of 1936) that on and after the appointed day it shall not be lawful for any registered maize miller to sell or offer for sale any maize meal mixture unless such maize meal mixture complies with the following specifications, that is to say—

(a) oats (if any) included therein is—

(i) in case neither a maize meal mixture (whole oats) order nor a maize meal mixture (oat kernels) order is then in force, in one or other of the following forms, that is to say the entire product derived from grinding oats or the entire product derived from grinding oat kernels, or

(ii) in case a maize meal mixture (whole oats) order is then in force, in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oats, or

(iii) in case a maize meal mixture (oat kernels) order is then in force, in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oat kernels;

(b) in case such maize meal mixture does not include any oats or includes any oats in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oats, the amount by weight of the product derived from grinding maize included therein does not exceed the prescribed percentage of such maize meal mixture;

(c) in case such maize meal mixture includes any oats in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oat kernels, the amount by weight of the product derived from grinding maize included therein does not exceed the appropriate prescribed percentage of such maize meal mixture.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of the said Section 29 that the Minister for Agriculture in making regulations in relation to the percentage referred to in paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of the said Section 29 as prescribed shall, by reference to the quantity of oats contained in maize meal mixtures to which the said paragraph (c) applies, divide such maize meal mixtures into such and so many classes as he may think proper, and shall prescribe different percentages in respect of different classes, and the percentage so prescribed in respect of any such class shall for the purposes of the said paragraph (c) be the appropriate prescribed percentage in relation to every maize meal mixture which belongs to such class:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 5 of the said Act that the Minister for Agriculture may by order make regulations in relation to any matter or thing referred to in the said Act as prescribed:

NOW, I, Séamas O Riain, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1936 (No. 30 of 1936), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order and make the following regulations, that is to say:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Produce (Maize Meal Mixture) Regulations, 1936.

2. These Regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of September, 1936.

3. In these Regulations the expression "the Act" means the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1936 (No. 30 of 1936).

4. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

5. (1) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 29 of the Act, the prescribed percentage shall be fifty per cent.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 29 of the Act and of sub-section (2) of the said Section 29, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) maize meal mixtures which include therein oats in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oat kernels shall be divided into the following classes, that is to say—

(i) Class I, i.e., where amount by weight of oats is less than thirty-five per cent. of the weight of the maize meal mixture;

(ii) Class II, i.e., where the amount by weight of oats is thirty-five per cent. of the weight of the maize meal mixture.

(b) the prescribed percentage in respect of Class I shall be fifty per cent;

(c) the prescribed percentage in respect of Class II shall be sixty-five per cent.

Given under my Seal of Office, this 12th day of August, 1936.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.