Number 35/1924: AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) ACT, 1924

Next (PART I EXPORT OF EGGS.)

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Number 35 of 1924.

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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) ACT, 1924.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PRELIMINARY

Section
1.	Short title and commencement.
2.	Definitions.

PART I

Export of Eggs

3.	Export of eggs.
4.	Inspection, etc., of eggs.
5.	Licences to export eggs.
6.	Powers of officers of customs and excise.

PART II

Registration of Premises

PART III

Miscellaneous and General

18.	Prohibition of sale of dirty or unfit eggs.
19.	Saving clause as to powers of Minister for Local Government and Public Health.
20.	General regulations.
21.	Expenses.
22.	Offences.

SCHEDULE

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Number 35 of 1924.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (EGGS) ACT, 1924.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE EXPORT OF EGGS, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE REGISTRATION OF PREMISES CONCERNED IN THE EXPORT OF EGGS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THE SALE OF EGGS. [30th July, 1924.]

		BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—
		PRELIMINARY.
[GA]	Short title and commencement.	1. —This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Produce (Eggs) Act, 1924, and shall come into operation on such day, not later than the 1st day of August, 1925, as the Minister shall by order appoint.
[GA]	Definitions.	2. —In this Act—
[GA]		the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Lands and Agriculture;
[GA]		the word “package” includes any box, crate, case, wrapper, or other receptacle containing or capable of containing eggs for transport, and, where the context so requires, includes the contents of such receptacle;
[GA]		the word “inspector” includes any person authorised (either generally or for a special occasion) by the Minister to exercise all or any of the powers and perform all or any of the duties conferred and imposed on an inspector by this Act;
[GA]		the word “eggs” means eggs in the shell of domestic fowls and ducks·
[GA]		the word “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;
[GA]		the expression “register of exporters” means the register kept pursuant to this Act under that name;
[GA]		the expression “register of preservers” means the register kept pursuant to this Act under that name.