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S.I. No. 190/1956 - Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage For Cereal Year 1955-56) (Variation) Order, 1956.

S.I. No. 190 of 1956.

HOME-GROWN WHEAT (NATIONAL PERCENTAGE FOR CEREAL YEAR 1955-56) (VARIATION) ORDER, 1956.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935) that the Minister for Agriculture, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, shall, before the commencement of every cereal year make, in the case of the cereal year commencing next after the passing of the said Act, as soon as may be after such passing or, in the case of any other cereal year not later than eight months before the commencement of such cereal year, an order fixing for the purposes of the said section 6 a percentage in respect of such cereal year, and the Minister for Agriculture may, after the like consultation, during such cereal year by a further order or orders vary the amount of such percentage ;

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Agriculture in pursuance of the said sub-section (1) of the said section 6 made the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year, 1955-56) Order, 1954 ( Statutory Instrument No. 282 of 1954 ) and, for the purposes of the said section 6 thereby fixed 75 per cent. as the percentage in respect of the cereal year commencing on the 1st day of September, 1955 and ending on the 31st day of August, 1956 :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Agriculture has consulted with the Minister for Industry and Commerce in regard to the making of this Order :

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES M. DILLON, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935), do hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1955-56) (Variation) Order, 1956.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937) applies to the interpretation of this Order.

3. Paragraph 3 (which fixes for the purposes of section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935) the percentage in respect of the cereal year commencing on the 1st day of September, 1955) of the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1955-56) Order, 1954 ( Statutory Instrument No. 282 of 1954 ) is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the words" sixty-eight per cent " for the words " seventy-five per cent " now contained therein and the said Order shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office this 6th day of July, 1956.

JAMES M. DILLON.

Minister for Agriculture.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order requires licensed millers to mill 68% (instead of 75% originally prescribed) of their milling quotas in the form of home-grown wheat during the cereal year ending 31st August, 1956.