No. 226/1944:

HOME GROWN WHEAT (NATIONAL PERCENTAGE FOR CEREAL YEAR 1943-44) (VARIATION No. 2) ORDER, 1944.

HOME GROWN WHEAT (NATIONAL PERCENTAGE FOR CEREAL YEAR 1943-44) (VARIATION No. 2) ORDER, 1944.

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), made, in respect of the cereal year commencing on the 1st day of September, 1943, the Home-grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1943-44) (Variation) Order, 1943 (Statutory Rules and Orders No. 336 of 1943) :

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, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, 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), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Home-grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1943-44) (Variation No. 2) Order, 1944.

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

3. Paragraph 3 (which fixes for the purposes of Section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 , the percentage in respect of the cereal year commencing on the 1st day of September, 1943) of the Home-grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1943-44) (Variation) Order, 1943 (Statutory Rules and Orders No. 336 of 1943) is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the words " forty-seven per cent " for the words " fifty per cent " now contained therein, and the said Order shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office, this 19th day of July, 1944.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.