No. 94/1940:

BUTTER STOCKS (LEVY) ORDER, 1940.

BUTTER STOCKS (LEVY) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938 (No. 30 of 1938) that the Minister for Agriculture may by order declare :

(a) that a specified date shall be the appointed date for the purposes of an order made under the said section, and

(b) that there shall be paid to the said Minister by every registered proprietor and every butter trader a levy, at the rate specified in such order in respect of creamery butter, on all creamery butter held by or on behalf of such registered proprietor or butter trader anywhere on the appointed date :

NOW, I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938 (No. 30 of 1938) and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows, that is to say :—

1.—This Order may be cited as the Butter Stocks (Levy) Order, 1940.

2.—The 1st day of April, 1940, is hereby declared to be the appointed date for the purposes of Section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938 (No. 30 of 1938).

3.—There shall be paid to the Minister for Agriculture by every registered proprietor and every butter trader a levy, at the rate of seven shillings the hundredweight on all creamery butter held by or on behalf of such registered proprietor or butter trader anywhere on the 1st of April, 1940.

Given under my Official Seal this 29th day of March, 1940.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.