No. 165/1937:

CREAMERY BUTTER (MINIMUM PRICES) (No. 2) ORDER, 1937.

CREAMERY BUTTER (MINIMUM PRICES) (No. 2) ORDER, 1937.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of section 39 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), that the Minister for Agriculture may from time to time by order fix the price which shall, as on and from a specified date, be the minimum price under the said section in respect of butter of any specified class (defined in such manner as the said Minister shall think proper), and may by any such order fix a minimum price varying in accordance with all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) the quantity of butter included in such sale or in any one delivery in pursuance of such sale, or

(b) the area in which the butter is delivered to the purchaser or to which the butter is forwarded for the purchaser, or

(c) the method of packing such butter:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (4) of section 39 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), that the Minister for Agriculture may at any time by order revoke or amend any order previously made by him under this section including an order made under this sub-section:

NOW, I, SÉAMAS 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 hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Creamery Butter (Minimum Prices) (No. 2) Order, 1937.

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 Creamery Butter (Minimum Prices) Order, 1937 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 107 of 1937) is revoked as on and from the 1st day of June, 1937.

4. The following prices shall be the minimum prices applicable to any particular class of creamery butter, that is to say:—

(a) creamery butter which is sold by the manufacturer thereof to any person and is placed in cold storage by such person under and in accordance with an arrangement sanctioned by the Minister for Agriculture on or before the 18th day of September, 1937, the price of five pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence the hundredweight.

(b) creamery butter (other than creamery butter to which the foregoing paragraph (a) applies) if such butter is comprised in a consignment of not less than twenty hundredweights the price of six pounds the hundredweight.

(c) creamery butter to which neither of the foregoing paragraphs (a) and (b) applies, if such butter is comprised in a consignment of less than twenty hundredweights the price of six pounds four shillings the hundredweight.

5. This Order shall come into operation as on and from the 1st day of June, 1937.

Given under my Seal of Office this 31st day of

May, 1937.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture