S.I. No. 154/1947 - Levy (Butter Stocks) (No. 2) Order, 1947.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1947. No. 154.

LEVY (BUTTER STOCKS) (No. 2) ORDER, 1947.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1941 (No. 9 of 1941) that the Minister for Agriculture may whenever and so often as he thinks fit by order declare—

(a) that a specified date (in the said sub-section referred to as the appointed date) shall be the appointed date for the purposes of such order, and

(b) that there shall be paid to the said Minister—

(i) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader who holds or on whose behalf there is held anywhere on the appointed date not less than three hundredweight of creamery butter (not being creamery butter intended for export and subsequently exported) a levy on such butter at the rate specified in such order in respect of creamery butter, and

(ii) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader who holds or on whose behalf there is held anywhere on the appointed date not less than three hundredweight of non-creamery butter (not being non-creamery butter intended for export and subsequently exported) a levy on such butter at the rate specified in such order in respect of non-creamery butter ;

NOW, I, PATRICK SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1941 (No. 9 of 1941) 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 Levy (Butter Stocks) (No. 2) Order, 1947.

2. In this Order—

the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Agriculture ;

the expressions " registered proprietor " and " butter trader " have the meanings respectively assigned to them by sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1941 (No. 9 of 1941).

3. The 17th day of April, 1947, is hereby appointed to be the appointed date for the purposes of this Order.

4. There shall be paid to the Minister by every registered proprietor and every butter trader who holds or on whose behalf there is held anywhere on the appointed date not less than three hundredweight of creamery butter (not being creamery butter intended for export and subsequently exported) a levy on such butter at the rate of thirty-seven shillings and four pence the hundredweight.

5. There shall be paid to the Minister by every registered proprietor and every butter trader who holds or on whose behalf there is held anywhere on the appointed date not less than three hundredweight of non-creamery butter (not being non-creamery butter intended for export and subsequently exported) a levy on such butter at the rate of thirty-seven shillings and four pence the hundredweight.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 16th day of April, 1947.

(Signed) PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.