S.I. No. 296/1961:

SUGAR (PROHIBITION OF IMPORT) ORDER, 1961.

SUGAR (PROHIBITION OF IMPORT) ORDER, 1961.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 2 and 5 of the Sugar (Control of Import) Act, 1936 (No. 16 of 1936), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Sugar (Prohibition of Import) Order, 1961.

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

3. The importation into the State in the period from the 1st day of January, 1962, to the 31st day of December, 1962, of sugar not manufactured or produced in the State is hereby prohibited, save under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf granted under the Sugar (Control of Import) Act, 1936 (No. 16 of 1936).

4. The following shall be exempted from the prohibition effected by this Order:

(a) sugar not exceeding fourteen pounds in weight which is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners to be imported for the personal use of the person by whom it is imported or of his household, and

(b) sugar which is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners to be imported as a sample.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 19th day of December, 1961.

SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to continue for a further period of 12 months from the 1st January, 1962, the prohibition on the import of sugar into the State by persons other than Cómhlucht Siúicre Éireann, Teoranta.