No. 30/1929:

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) ACT, 1924.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) ACT, 1924.

REGULATIONS MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) ACT, 1924 .

Dated the 18th day of July, 1929.

I, Patrick Hogan, Minister for Agriculture, in virtue of the powers conferred on me by the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Act, 1924 (No. 35 of 1924) and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, do, by this Order, make the following Regulations, that is to say:—

1. In these Regulations—

(1) the expression "the principal Regulations" means the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1925.

(2) the expression "the first Amending Regulations of 1929" means the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1925, Amendment Regulations, 1929.

(3) the expression "chemical storage" has the meaning assigned to it by the first Amending Regulations of 1929.

2. Eggs which have been preserved by cold storage or chemical storage, and which are intended for export to a place of final destination in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, shall before being packed for despatch from premises registered in the Register of Exporters, in which they were tested and graded, be marked as follows, that is to say:—

(1) The shell of each such egg shall be marked with the design prescribed by paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the first Amending Regulations of 1929 in black ink.

(2) The shell of each such egg, if a Trade egg, shall also be marked in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 3 of the first Amending Regulations of 1929.

3. Eggs intended for sale, exchange or barter or to be offered or exposed for sale, exchange or barter, which have been kept in cold storage or chemical storage in any premises used for such storage of eggs shall, before removal from such premises, be marked as follows, that is to say,—

The shell of each such egg shall be marked with the design prescribed by paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the first Amending Regulations of 1929, in black ink.

4. (1) All marks prescribed by these Regulations shall be conspicuously placed on the shell of the egg, and shall be legible and durable and be clearly and sharply defined.

(2) All marks applied to the shell of an egg in compliance with these regulations shall be so placed that no portion of any mark shall be superimposed on any portion of any other mark or marks on such egg, whether such marks or any of them are prescribed by these Regulations or are not so prescribed.

5. All packages of eggs prepared for the sale, exchange or barter of the eggs or intended to be offered or exposed for the sale, exchange or barter of the eggs shall, before despatch from any premises used for the cold storage or chemical storage of eggs on which they were so prepared, be stencilled with the words " cold stored " both on the inside and the outside of the packages. The said words shall be stencilled on the package itself and not on a label, ticket or other thing attached to the package. The letters of which the stencil is comprised shall be capital block letters of not less than one inch in height.

6. These Regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1925, Amendment Regulations (No. 2), 1929, and the principal Regulations, the first Amending Regulations of 1929 and these Regulations may be cited together as The Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Regulations, 1925 and 1929.

7. The provisions of these Regulations shall operate as from the date hereof.

Given under my Seal of Office, this eighteenth day of July, 1929.

P. HOGAN,

Minister for Agriculture.