S.I. No. 233/1967:

PIGS AND BACON ACTS 1935 TO 1961 (PIGS AND BACON COMMISSION) MINIMUM PRICES (No. 2) ORDER, 1967.

PIGS AND BACON ACTS 1935 TO 1961 (PIGS AND BACON COMMISSION) MINIMUM PRICES (No. 2) ORDER, 1967.

WHERAS sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Pigs and Bacon (Amendment) Act, 1956 (No. 37 of 1956) provides that the Commission may by Order:

(a) fix, in respect of carcasses of factory-purchased pigs of any grade of any graded class sold while the Order is in force, the minimum price (in terms of a rate per hundredweight) thereof:

(b) fix, in respect of carcasses of factory-purchased pigs of any non-graded class sold while the Order is in force, the minimum price (in terms of a rate per hundredweight) thereof.

AND WHEREAS Section 21 of the Pigs and Bacon (Amendment) Act, 1961 provides that an Order under the said Section shall not be made without the consent of the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

AND WHEREAS this Order is being made with the consent of the Minister as required by Section 21 of the said Act.

NOW THEREFORE the Pigs and Bacon Commission in exercise of the powers vested in it under the said Section hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Pigs and Bacon Acts, 1935 to 1961 (Pigs and Bacon Commission) Minimum Prices (No. 2) Order, 1967.

2. This Order shall remain in force until Saturday the 25th day of November, 1967.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Minimum Prices (No. 1) Order, 1967 the minimum price of every carcase of a factory-purchased pig of the class and grade specified in the Schedule hereto sold during the currency of this Order shall be calculated at the rate per hundredweight specified in the Schedule hereto appropriate to the grade of such carcase.

4. The class and grade of every carcase to which this Order applies shall be ascertained in the manner prescribed in the Pigs and Bacon Acts, 1935 to 1961 (Pigs and Bacon Commission) Grading (No. 1) Order, 1966.

SCHEDULE.

Provisions for calculating the minimum prices of factory-purchased bacon pigs.

GIVEN under the seal of the Pigs and Bacon Commission this 8th

day of November, 1967.

The Seal of the Commission was affixed in the presence of:

R. GODSIL,

Chairman.

The foregoing Order was made with the consent of the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

GIVEN under the official seal of the Minister for Agriculture and

Fisheries this 8th day of November, 1967.

D. J. BUCKLEY,

A person authorised by the Minister for

Agriculture and Fisheries to authenticate

the Official Seal of the Minister.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order fixes the price of Grade 'L' carcasses of bacon pigs purchased, up to and including the 25th November, 1967, at licensed premises at 246/- per cwt. (dead weight).

It also fixes the price of bacon pigs in the weight range over 160 lb. to 170 lb. (excluding 'B1' carcasses) at 260/- per cwt. (dead weight) and in the case of carcases weighing more than 170 lb. but not more than 180 lb. at 250/- per cwt. (dead weight) up to and including the 25th November, 1967.