PART I.

Preliminary and General.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1938.

(2) The Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Acts, 1933 to 1937, and this Act may be cited together as the Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Acts, 1933 to 1938.

2. —The Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Acts, 1933 to 1937, and this Act shall be construed together and accordingly every word and expression to which a particular meaning is given by or in those Acts for the purposes of those Acts has, in this Act, the meaning so given to it.

3. —Articles prohibited to be imported by virtue of this Act shall be deemed to be included among the goods enumerated and described in the Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Inwards contained in section 42 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and the provisions of that Act, as amended or extended by any subsequent Act, applying to the importation of prohibited or restricted goods, shall apply accordingly.

4. —Every order made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce or the Minister for Agriculture under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling such order is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which such House has sat after such order is laid before it, such order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.

5. —All expenses incurred by the Minister for Industry and Commerce or the Minister for Agriculture under this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

6. —The enactments set out in the second column of the First Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule.