S.I. No. 267/1966 - Tobacco (Areas For 1967) Order, 1966.

1. This Order may be cited as the Tobacco (Areas for 1967) Order, 1966.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

(No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. (1) The maximum total number of acres which may be planted with tobacco in the year 1967 shall be one thousand five hundred acres.

(2) The maximum number of acres which may be planted with tobacco in the year 1967 by any one person shall be six acres.

(3) The minimum area which may be planted with tobacco in the year 1967 by any one person other than a person who satisfies the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries that he proposes to grow tobacco in such a year for experimental purposes, shall be a half-acre.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 19th day of December, 1966.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Order fixes the maximum acreage which may be planted with tobacco in 1967 and also the maximum and minimum acreages which may be planted by an individual grower.

S.I. No. 267 of 1966.

TOBACCO (AREAS FOR 1967) ORDER, 1966.

I, NEIL T. BLANEY, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of

section 11

of the

Tobacco Act, 1934

(No. 37 of 1934), as adapted by the Agriculture (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1965 (

S.I. No. 146 of 1965

), hereby order as follows