No. 77/1931:

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) ACTS (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1931.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) ACTS (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1931.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), that the Minister for Finance may from time to time make regulations for certain purposes respecting fees in any public office, and amongst others for the purpose of regulating the manner in which the fees, taken in money, are to be taken, accounted for, and paid over;

AND WHEREAS the Office of the Minister for Agriculture is a public office within the meaning of the said Act;

AND WHEREAS by virtue of the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Acts (Collection of Fees) Order, 1931 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1931 (No. 76) ), fees payable in the Office of the Minister for Agriculture under the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Acts, 1924 and 1930, are to be collected in money;

NOW, therefore, the Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say:—

1. These Regulations may be cited for all purposes as the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Acts (Collection of Fees) Regulations, 1931.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

3. In these Regulations—

the expression "the Office" means the Office of the Minister for Agriculture,

the expression "the Acts" means the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Acts, 1924 and 1930.

4. Payment of a fee in the Office under the Acts may, in the case of a person who at the date of payment is in Ireland, be made either—

(a) by lodging the fee to the credit of the Paymaster-General's Supply Account at the Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin, or any branch in Ireland of the Bank of Ireland, together with a receivable order to be obtained from the Office, and by presenting at the Office the lower portion of such receivable order receipted by the said Bank; or

(b) if the amount of the fee does not exceed five shillings by payment in cash at the Office, or by sending a cheque or postal order to the Office.

5. Payment of a fee in the Office under the Acts may, in the case of a person who at the date of payment is outside Ireland, be made either—

(a) by sending by post to the Office a Post Office Money Order payable to the Paymaster-General at the General Post Office, Dublin, and crossed "/& Co/" or a banker's draft or a cheque guaranteed by the bank on which it is drawn payable to the credit of the Account of the Paymaster-General; or

(b) if the amount of the fee does not exceed five shillings, by payment in cash at the Office, or by sending a cheque or postal order to the Office.

6. All fees payable in the Office under the Acts shall be accounted for, paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance may direct.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 26th day of October in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-One.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Secretary.