S.I. No. 220/1947 - Cooling of Creamery Butter Order, 1947.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1947. No. 220.

COOLING OF CREAMERY BUTTER ORDER, 1947.

I, PATRICK SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Article 31 of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (S. R. & O. No. 224 of 1939), as amended by the Emergency Powers (No. 173) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 166 of 1942) (which orders are continued in force by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946)), and of any and every other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Cooling of Creamery Butter Order, 1947.

2. In this Order—

the word " creamery " when used without qualification means premises registered in the register of creameries kept in pursuance of the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 (No. 58 of 1924) ;

the expression " creamery butter " means butter manufactured in a creamery and not subsequently blended with any butter which was not manufactured in a creamery.

3. The proprietor of a creamery shall not despatch therefrom on any day (being a day before the 1st day of November, 1947), any creamery butter manufactured therein and intended for cold storage, the temperature of which for the time being exceeds 46° Fahrenheit.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 19th day of June, 1947.

(Signed), PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.