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Amendment of sections 1 and 2 of the Principal Act.
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2.—(1) The definition of the expression “agricultural product” contained in section 1 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the words “any animal, milk, cream, eggs, and any article of food or drink wholly or partly manufactured or derived from any such product or from any animal or from milk, cream or eggs, and includes feathers, wool, hides and skins of animals,” for the words “and any article of food or drink wholly or partly manufactured, or derived from any such product, and fleeces and skins of animals,” and the Principal Act shall be construed and have effect with due regard to the modification of the said expression effected by the said amendment.
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(2) Section 2 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the following sub-section in lieu of sub-section (1) now contained therein, and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly, that is to say:—
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“(1) If the Government of any country establishes any system of restriction or control of the import of any agricultural product into that country from Saorstát Eireann or if the Government of any country has made any agreement or arrangement with the Government of Saorstát Eireann whereby any agricultural product is permitted or required to be imported to a limited extent into that country from Saorstát Eireann or whereby the import of any agricultural product into that country from Saorstát Eireann is facilitated the Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks proper, make an order (in this Act referred to as an export order) regulating and controlling the export of any agricultural product to that country from Saorstát Eireann in such manner as appears to him to be calculated to secure the maximum benefit permitted by such system of restriction and control or such agreement or arrangement, or to be calculated to secure compliance with the requirements of such agreement or arrangement, and in particular may, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, by such order provide for all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—
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(a) for the registration of persons engaged in exporting such product;
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(b) for the control and restriction of the export of such product to such country from Saorstát Eireann;
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(c) for prohibiting the export of any specified descriptions of such product to such country from Saorstát Eireann;
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(d) for prohibiting the export of such product to such country from Saorstát Eireann by any person, other than the Minister or such person or persons as he may from time to time authorise;
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(e) for the making from time to time by the Minister of orders appointing specified periods to be quota periods for the purposes of such order and specified quantities of such product to be quotas in respect of such quota periods;
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(f) for requiring registered persons to export to such country during any quota period or periods appointed for the purposes of such order a specified quantity of such product not exceeding the quantity such persons respectively undertake to export to such country during such period or periods;
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(g) for regulating and controlling any alternative export to such country which may for the time being be permitted;
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(h) for securing the making of returns;
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(i) for making specified infringements of such order offences punishable on summary conviction and fixing the penalties for such offences.”
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(3) Sub-sections (1) and (2) of this section shall have and be deemed to have had effect as from the passing of the Principal Act.
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(4) Every order made under sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Principal Act before the date of the passing of this Act and in force at such date shall continue in force and be deemed to have been duly made under the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, and shall be an export order within the meaning of the Principal Act, as so amended.
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