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S.I. No. 4/1936 - Tabacco (Areas For 1936) Order, 1936.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1936. No. 4.

TABACCO (AREAS FOR 1936) ORDER, 1936.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (I) of Section II of the Tobacco Act, 1934 (No. 37 of 1934), that the Minister for Agriculture shall, after consultation with the Minister for Finance, by order (in the said Act referred to as an area order) fix in respect of every year commencing after the 13th day of September, 1934—

(a) the maximum total number of acres which may be planted with tobacco in such year;

(b) the maximum number of acres which may be planted with tobacco in such year by any one person; and

(c) the minimum area which may be planted with tobacco in such year by any one person, other than a person who satisfies the Minister for Agriculture that he proposes to grow tobacco in such year for experimental purposes;

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Agriculture has consulted with the Minister for Finance in regard to the making of this Order;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in pursuance of sub-section (I) of Section II of the Tobacco Act, 1934 (No. 37 of 1934), and in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the said sub-section and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows, that is to say:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Tobacco (Areas for 1936) 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.—(1) The maximum total number of acres which may be planted with tobacco in the year 1936 shall be one thousand five hundred acres.

(2) The maximum number of acres which may be planted with tobacco in the year 1936 by any one person shall be four acres.

(3) The minimum area which may be planted with tobacco in the year 1936 by any one person, other than a person who satisfies the Minister for Agriculture that he proposes to grow tobacco in such year for experimental purposes, shall be a half acre.

Given under my Seal of Office this 7th day of January, 1936.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.