available in the hands of that authority for expenditure, with the
approval of the said Board of Trade, on the following purposes:—
(a.) The payment from time to time of the expenses incurred by the
licensing authority or by any Department of the Government,
or by the Board of Trade, in administering the system of
export licenses hereby established.
(b.) The distribution from time to time among the several holders of
export licenses of such sums as may be deemed justly payable
in order to compensate those holders for any loss incurred by
them in disposing of butter of their own manufacture for home
consumption instead of for export, during any period in
respect of which the aforesaid charge on butter-fat has been
paid by them.
(c.) In refunding to the payers of the charge all sums not expended
for the aforesaid purposes.
(2.) The determination of the Board of Trade as to the expenditure
of such moneys shall for all purposes be final and conclusive.
9. Every export license shall be issued on the terms that if any dispute arises between the licenseholder and the licensing authority as to
the amount of the charge to be paid by the licenseholder, the dispute
shall be referred to the said Board of Trade, whose decision thereon shall
be final.
10. Every export license shall be issued on the terms that the licenseholder shall from time to time make to the licensing authority such
returns relative to the business of the licenseholder as that authority
may from time to time require for the purposes of this Order in Council,
those returns to be verified by statutory declaration if and so far as
the licensing authority so requires.
11. Every export license may be issued on such further terms and
conditions as the licensing authority considers necessary for the effective
administration of this Order in Council.
12. No export license shall be granted to any company, firm, or person
until that company, firm, or person has entered into a written agreement
with the licensing authority, on behalf of the Crown, to pay the said
charge and to observe and perform all the terms and conditions of the
license.
13. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Order in Council,
butter and cheese may, with the leave of a Collector of Customs, be
shipped for exportation as ship’s stores at any time before the 28th
day of October, 1916, without the necessity of an export license, if the
Collector is satisfied that the quantity so shipped does not exceed the
quantity reasonably required by the ship for its outward and return
voyage.
14. The licensing authority for the purposes of this Order in Council
shall be such officer of the Government service as may be nominated in
that behalf by the Minister of Agriculture.
15. Nothing in this Order in Council shall apply to whey-butter, or
to milled butter, or to farmers’ dairy butter or cheese.
16. Save and except that the Order in Council of the 11th day of
May, 1916, is hereby revoked as aforesaid, nothing in this present Order
in Council, or in any export license granted in pursuance thereof, shall
in any manner take away or affect the operation of any other Orders
in Council by which the export of butter or cheese is already in any
manner prohibited or restricted; and all existing Orders in Council made
under the Customs Act, 1913, and the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, relative to the exportation of goods shall have full force
and effect according to their tenor concurrently with the present Order
in Council, and in the same manner as if the said Order in Council of
the 11th day of May, 1916, had never been in force.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.