S.I. No. 293/1970:

HOME-GROWN WHEAT (NATIONAL PERCENTAGE FOR CEREAL YEAR 1971-72) ORDER, 1970.

HOME-GROWN WHEAT (NATIONAL PERCENTAGE FOR CEREAL YEAR 1971-72) ORDER, 1970.

I, JAMES GIBBONS, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 6 of the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1935 (No. 26 of 1935), as adapted by the Agriculture (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1965 ( S.I. No. 146 of 1965 ), and by the Wheat Milling (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1968 ( S.I. No. 217 of 1968 ), hereby order as follows:--

1. This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Wheat (National Percentage for Cereal Year 1971-72) Order, 1970.

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

3. 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, 1971, shall be seventy-five per cent.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of December, 1970.

JAMES GIBBONS,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order requires licensed millers to mill 75 per cent of their milling quotas in the form of home-grown wheat during the cereal year ending 31st August, 1972.