No. 100/1933:

MILLABLE WHEAT REGULATIONS, 1933.

MILLABLE WHEAT REGULATIONS, 1933.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933 (No. 7 of 1933), that the Minister for Agriculture, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, may by order make regulations prescribing the standard to which wheat must conform in order to be classed as millable and references in the said Act to millable wheat shall be construed as meaning wheat which conforms to the standard prescribed by such regulations;

AND WHEREAS before making these regulations the Minister for Agriculture has consulted with the Minister for Industry and Commerce;

NOW, I, SEAMUS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the power conferred on me by section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933 (No. 7 of 1933), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order and make the following regulations, that is to say:—

1. These Regulations may be cited for all purposes as the Millable Wheat Regulations, 1933.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923) applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The standard to which wheat must conform in order to be classed as millable shall be as follows, that is to say, such wheat must be—

(a) commercially clean, and

(b) in sound and sweet condition, and

(c) capable, having regard to the methods customarily used in the milling industry for the cleaning and conditioning of wheat, of being milled into flour suitable for human consumption.

Given under my Seal of Office, this 24th day of August, 1933.

(Signed) SÉAMUS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.