No. 97/1940:

SHEEPSKIN (PROHIBITION OF EXPORT) ORDER, 1940.

SHEEPSKIN (PROHIBITION OF EXPORT) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 2 of the Sheepskin (Control of Export) Act, 1934 (No. 13 of 1934), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, whenever and so often as he thinks proper, by order prohibit the export of sheepskin otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued under that Act, and may so prohibit such export either for so long as such order is in force or for a specified period or for two or more specified discontinuous periods :

NOW, I, SEÁN MacENTEE, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the power conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 2 of the Sheepskin (Control of Export) Act, 1934 (No. 13 of 1934), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Sheepskin (Prohibition of Export) Order, 1940.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The export of sheepskin otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued under the Sheepskin (Control of Export) Act, 1934 (No. 13 of 1934), is hereby prohibited during the period from the 1st day of April, 1940, to the 31st day of March, 1941.

Given under my Official Seal this 29th day of March, 1940.

(Signed) SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.