No. 114/1936:

SLAUGHTER OF CATTLE AND SHEEP (LEVY) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1936.

SLAUGHTER OF CATTLE AND SHEEP (LEVY) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1936.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep Act, 1934 (No. 42 of 1934), that the Minister for Agriculture may by order make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in the said Act as prescribed or to be prescribed, but that no such regulation shall be made in relation to the amount or collection of fees or levies without the consent of the Minister for Finance :

AND WHEREAS in exercise of the said power the Minister for Agriculture, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, made the Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep (Registration and Levy) Regulations, 1934 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 324 of 1934) :

AND WHEREAS the matters or things prescribed by these Regulations are referred to in the said Act as prescribed or to be prescribed :

NOW, I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep Act, 1934 (No. 42 of 1934), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby order and make the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep (Levy) (Amendment) Regulations, 1936.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The following shall be the rates of levy on all cattle and sheep slaughtered in registered slaughtering premises for human consumption in Saorstát Eireann, that is to say :—

(a) on all cattle (other than calves aged less than six months) at the rate of ten shillings per animal, and

(b) on all calves aged less than six months at the rate of six pence per animal, and

(c) on all sheep at the rate of two shillings and six pence per animal.

4. Paragraph 8 of the Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep (Registration and Levy) Regulations, 1934 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 324 of 1934), is hereby revoked.

5. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1936.

Given under my Seal of Office this 31st day of March, 1936.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.

I consent to the making of the foregoing Regulations.

(Signed) SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Finance.