S.I. No. 147/1961 - Home-Grown Wheat (Purchase Percentage For Cereal Year 1961-62) Order, 1961.

1. This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Wheat (Purchase Percentage for Cereal Year 1961-62) Order, 1961.

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

3. Of the home-grown wheat quotas for all mills which are licensed mills at the commencement of the cereal year commencing on the 1st day of September, 1961, and ending on the 31st day of August, 1962, for such cereal year each percentage, specified in the second column of the Schedule hereto, shall be purchased and taken into store in such cereal year by holders of milling licences before the end of the month specified in the first column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such percentage.

SCHEDULE.

PERCENTAGES OF TOTAL HOME-GROWN WHEAT QUOTAS FOR CEREAL YEAR 1961-62 REQUIRED TO BE PURCHASED AND TAKEN INTO STORE BEFORE THE END OF CERTAIN MONTHS.

Month

Percentage of Total Home-grown Wheat Quotas

(1)

(2)

September, 1961

20%

October, 1961

60%

November, 1961

70%

December, 1961

80%

January, 1962

80%

February, 1962

80%

GIVEN under my Seal of Office this 17th day of July, 1961.

PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Order requires licensed millers to purchase in each month from September, 1961, to February, 1962, a specified percentage of their home-grown wheat quotas.

S.I. No. 147 of 1961.

HOME-GROWN WHEAT (PURCHASE PERCENTAGE FOR CEREAL YEAR 1961-62) ORDER, 1961.

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

section 10

of the

Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935

(No. 26 of 1935), as amended by sub-section (4) of

section 14

of the

Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1936

(No. 30 of 1936), that the Minister for Agriculture may before the commencement of any cereal year make an order requiring that of the home-grown wheat quotas, for all mills which are licensed mills at the commencement of such cereal year, for such cereal year a percentage fixed by such order shall be purchased and taken into store in such cereal year by holders of milling licences before the end of each month, specified in such order, in such cereal year, and such percentage may, in respect of any one month in such cereal year, be fixed at one hundred per cent

NOW, THEREFORE, I, PATRICK SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of

section 10

of the

Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935

(No. 26 of 1935), as amended by sub-section (4) of

section 14

of the

Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1936

(No. 30 of 1936), do hereby order as follows:—