S.I. No. 331/1938 - Butter Stocks (Levy) Order, 1938.

1. This Order may be cited as the Butter Stocks (Levy) Order, 1938.

2. The 10th day of December, 1938, is hereby declared to be the appointed date for the purposes of

section 4

of the

Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938

(No. 30 of 1938).

3. There shall be paid to the Minister for Agriculture—

(

a

) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader a levy, at the rate of nine shillings the hundredweight on all creamery butter held by or on behalf of such registered proprietor or butter trader anywhere on the 10th day of December, 1938, and

(

b

) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader a levy, at the rate of nine shillings the hundredweight on all non-creamery butter held by or on behalf of such registered proprietor or butter trader anywhere on the 10th day of December, 1938.

Given under my Official Seal this 9th day of

December, 1938.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.

ÉIRE. STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1938. No. 331.

BUTTER STOCKS (LEVY) ORDER, 1938.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of

section 4

of the

Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938

(No. 30 of 1938), that the Minister for Agriculture may by Order declare:—

(

a

) that a specified date shall be the appointed date for the purposes of an Order made under the said section, and

(

b

) that there shall be paid to the said Minister—

(i) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader a levy, at the rate specified in such Order in respect of creamery butter, on all creamery butter held by or on behalf of such registered proprietor or butter trader anywhere on the appointed date, and

(ii) by every registered proprietor and every butter trader a levy, at the rate specified in such Order in respect of non-creamery butter, on all non-creamery butter held by or on behalf of such registered proprietor or butter trader anywhere on the appointed date

NOW, I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of

section 4

of the

Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1938

(No. 30 of 1938), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows, that is to say:—