No. 657/1935:

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (MAIZE MEAL MIXTURE) NO. 3 REGULATIONS, 1935.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (MAIZE MEAL MIXTURE) NO. 3 REGULATIONS, 1935.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 82 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933 (No. 7 of 1933), as amended by Section 25 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1934 (No. 41 of 1934), that it shall not be lawful for any registered maize miller to sell or offer for sale any maize meal mixture unless such maize meal mixture complies with the following specifications, that is to say:—

(a) Oats (if any) included therein is, if an Order under sub-section (3) of the said Section is not then in force, in one or other of the following forms, that is to say, the entire product derved from grinding oats or the entire product derived from grinding oat-kernels, or, if any such Order is then in force, in the form required by such Order;

(b) the amount by weight of oats (if any) included therein in the form of the entire product decrived from grinding oats does not exceed the prescribed percentage of such maize meal mixture;

(c) in case such maize meal mixture does not include any oats or includes any oats in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oats, the amount by weight of the product derived from grinding maize included therein does not exceed the prescribed percentage of such maize meal mixture;

(d) in case such maize meal mixture includes any oats in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oat-kernels, the amount by weight of the product derived from grinding maize included therein does not exceed the appropriate prescribed percentage of such maize meal mixture;

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of Section 82 of the said first-mentioned Act that the Minister for Agriculture in making regulations in relation to the percentage referred to in paragraph (d) of sub-section (1) of the said Section 82 as prescribed shall, by reference to the quantity of oats contained in maize meal mixture to which the said paragraph (d) applies, divide such maize meal mixture into such and so many classes as he may think proper, and shall prescribe different percentages in respect of different classes, and the percentage so prescribed in respect of any such class shall for the purposes of the said paragraph (d) be the appropriate prescribed percentage in relation to every maize meal mixture which belongs to such class:

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Agriculture is empowered by virtue of Section 78 of the said first-mentioned Act to make by Order regulations in relation to any matter or thing referred to in Section 82 of the said first-mentioned Act as prescribed;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933 (No. 7 of 1933), as amended by the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1934 (No. 41 of 1934) 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 Agricultural Produce (Maize Meal Mixture) No. 3 Regulations, 1935.

2. These Regulations shall come into force on the 9th day of December, 1935.

3. In these Regulations the expression "the Act" means the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933 (No. 7 of 1933), as amended by the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1934 (No. 41 of 1934).

4. 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.

5.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 82 of the Act, the prescribed percentage shall be fifty per cent.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 82 of the Act, the prescribed percentage shall be fifty per cent.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (d) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of section 82 of the act, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) maize meal mixtures which include therein oats in the form of the entire product derived from grinding oat-kernels shall be divided into the following classes, that is to say—

(i) Class I, i.e., where amount by weight of oats is less than thirty-five per cent. of the weight of the maize meal mixture,

(ii) Class II, i.e., where the amount be weight of oats is thirty-five per cent. of the weight of the maize meal mixture,

(b) the prescribed percentage in respect of Class I shall be fifty per cent;

(c) the prescribed percentage in respect of Class II shall be sixty-five per cent.

6. The Agricultural Produce (Maize Meal Mixture) No. 2 Regulations, 1935, are hereby revoked.

Given under my Seal of Office, this 4th day of December, 1935.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.