No. 279/1942:

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1942.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1942.

I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Act, 1939 (No. 2 of 1939), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do by this Order make the following Regulations :

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) (Amendment) Regulations, 1942.

(2) The Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1939 to 1941, and these Regulations may be cited together as the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1939 to 1942.

2. In these Regulations the expression " the Principal Regulations " means the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1939 ( S. R. & O., No. 169 of 1939 ).

3. Article 17 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended in the following respects :—

(a) by the insertion after paragraph (3) of a new paragraph as follows :—

" (3A) The combined Filler-flat known as Keyes Tray shall not be used in packing eggs for export without the sanction of the Minister, but may be used in packing eggs for the home trade " ;

(b) by the insertion at the end thereof of a new paragraph as follows :—

" (8) All eggs exported or intended to be exported shall be packed in Standard cases with such packing materials and in such manner as will prevent any movement in transit of the layers of eggs in the cases or of the individual eggs in each layer. "

4. Schedule No. 12 to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the deletion in Part A of paragraph 3 and the deletion in Part B of paragraph 3.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 10th day of July, 1942.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.