S.I. No. 96/1933 - Export of Fresh Meat (Prohibition) Order, 1933.

STATUTORY RULFS AND ORDERS, 1933. No. 96.

EXPORT OF FRESH MEAT (PROHIBITION) ORDER, 1933.

WHEREAS the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Act, 1930 , (No. 10 of 1930), in so far as it applies or relates to beef, veal and the offals of cattle, pork and the offals of pigs, and mutton, lamb and the offals of sheep, came into operation on the 1st day of September, 1930, by virtue of an Order entitled the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Act, 1930 , (Beef, Pork and Mutton) (Commencement) Order, 1930;

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 42 of the said Act that the Minister for Agriculture may by order, if and whenever he thinks fit, prohibit for so long as such order remains in force the export of fresh meat or offals which is or are in any particular condition or from which any specified part or organ of the animal is missing or has been removed or to which any specified preservatives or other matter has been added or which consists or consist only of particular detached portions or of portions of any particular size or other characteristic;

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of section 42 of the said Act that the said Minister may at any time by order, amend, vary or revoke an order previously made by him under sub-section (1) of the said section 42 and for the time being in force;

NOW I, SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 42 of the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Act, 1930 (No. 10 of 1930), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows, that is to say:—

1. —(1) This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Export of Fresh Meat (Prohibition) Order, 1933.

(2) This Order shall come into force on the 1st day of September, 1933.

2. In this Order—

the expression "fresh meat" means beef, veal, pork, mutton or lamb;

the word "animal" means bull, cow, ox, heifer, calf, ram, ewe, wether, lamb, sow or hog.

3. 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.

4. So long as this Order remains in force, the export of the following kinds of fresh meat is hereby prohibited, that is to say—

(a) scrap meat, that is to say, meat which consists of scraps, trimmings or other pieces (whether with or without bone) of such shape or in such condition as to afford insufficient means of identification with a definite part of a carcase, and which has not before exportation been made ready for human consumption in the form of a sausage or other prepared or manufactured article of food;

(b) meat comprising the ribs or the abdominal wall from which the pleura or the peritoneum has been detached;

(c) the carcase of an animal having the head in its natural state of attachment to the carcase, but not having the sub-maxillary, prescapular, precrural, superficial inguinal, supramammary and popliteal glands in their natural position;

(d) a severed part of the carcase of an animal (including the whole carcase without the head) from which a pres apular, precrural, popliteal, superficial inguinal or supramammary gland has been taken out;

(e) the head of an animal without the submaxillary gland or a tongue from which the submaxillary gland has been taken out.

5. The Export of Fresh Meat (Prohibition) Order, 1930, is hereby revoked.

Given under my Seal of Office this 11th day of August, 1933.

(Signed) SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.