No. 47/1939:

IMPORTED BUTTER (LEVY) ORDER, 1939.

IMPORTED BUTTER (LEVY) ORDER, 1939.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 26 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), that the Minister for Agriculture may from time to time by order make regulations prescribing the rates of levy under Part IV of the said Act on imported butter :

NOW, I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 26 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do by this Order make the following regulations :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Imported Butter (Levy) Order, 1939.

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.—(a) The rate of levy on imported butter (being creamery butter which was manufactured in the State) shall be twenty shillings the hundredweight.

(b) The rate of levy mentioned in and prescribed by this paragraph shall come into force as on and from the twentieth day of February, 1939.

Given under my Official Seal this 27th day of February, 1939.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.