No. 346/1936:

CREAMERY BUTTER (MINIMUM PRICES) (No. 4) ORDER, 1936.

CREAMERY BUTTER (MINIMUM PRICES) (No. 4) ORDER, 1936.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (2) of Section 39 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), that the Minister for Agriculture may from time to time by order fix the price which shall, as on and from a specified date, be the minimum price under the said section in respect of butter of any specified class (defined in such manner as the said Minister shall think proper), and may by any such order fix a minimum price varying in accordance with all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) the quantity of butter included in such sale or in any one delivery in pursuance of such sale, or

(b) the area in which the butter is delivered to the purchaser or to which the butter is forwarded for the purchaser, or

(c) the method of packing such butter:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (4) of Section 39 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), that the Minister for Agriculture may at any time by order revoke or amend any order previously made by him under this Section including an order made under this subsection:

NOW, I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1935 (No. 21 of 1935), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Creamery Butter (Minimum Prices) (No. 4) Order, 1936.

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

3. The Creamery Butter (Minimum Prices) (No. 3) Order, 1936 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 272 of 1936), is revoked as on and from the 1st day of December, 1936.

4. The following prices shall be the minimum prices applicable to any particular class of creamery butter, that is to say—

(a) creamery butter delivered or forwarded to the purchaser thereof in the county borough of Dublin, the county of Dublin, or the urban district of Bray, if such butter is comprised in a consignment of not less than twenty hundredweights, the price of seven pounds one shilling the hundredweight, or, if such butter is comprised in a consignment of less than twenty hundredweights, the price of seven pounds five shillings the hundredweight, and

(b) creamery butter, to which the foregoing paragraph (a) does not apply, if such butter is comprised in a consignment of not less than ten hundredweights, the price of seven pounds one shilling the hundredweight, or, if such butter is comprised in a consignment of less than ten hundredweights, the price of seven pounds five shillings the hundredweight.

5. This Order shall come into operation as on and from the 1st day of December, 1936.

Given under my Seal of Office, this 13th day of

November, 1936.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.