No. 14/1932:

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (POTATOES) ACT (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1932.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (POTATOES) ACT (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1932.

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 (Potatoes) Act (Collection of Fees) Order, 1932 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1932, No. 13) fees payable in the Office of the Minister for Agriculture under the Agricultural Produce (Potatoes) Act, 1931 (No. 26 of 1931), 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 (Potatoes) Act (Collection of Fees) Regulations, 1932.

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. Fees taken in the Office of the Minister for Agriculture under the Agricultural Produce (Potatoes) Act, 1931 (No. 26 of 1931), shall be taken in the form of a post office money order payable to the Paymaster-General at the General Post Office, Dublin, and crossed "/& Co./" or in the form of a banker's draft or of a cheque guaranteed by the bank on which it is drawn payable to the credit of the account of the Paymaster-General, or, if the amount of the fee does not exceed five shillings, by payment in cash or by cheque or by postal order.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 10th day of February in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-two.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Secretary.