Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Act, 1932
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Prohibition of import of butter. |
21.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to import into Saorstát Eireann any butter save under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Minister under this section. | |
(2) The Minister may, upon the application of any person in the prescribed form and manner and upon payment by that person of the appropriate levy (if any) payable thereon under this Act grant to such person a licence to import the consignment of butter specified in the licence by such route (if any), and subject to such conditions as are stated in the licence. | ||
(3) A licence granted under this section shall operate to authorise the person to whom the same is granted to import in accordance with the terms of the licence, the consignment of butter specified therein. | ||
(4) The Minister may at any time before a consignment of butter specified in a licence is actually imported, revoke the licence relating to such consignment. | ||
(5) If any person imports butter without a licence granted under this section, or if any person to whom a licence has been granted under this section contravenes any of the terms or conditions contained in such licence, or if any person falsely represents, by means of a mark on the consignment or otherwise, that any consignment of butter is being imported pursuant to any such licence, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds. | ||
(6) Unless the Minister, either generally or in any particular case, otherwise prescribes this section shall not apply to the import of any butter which complies with all the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) (b) (c) and (d) of sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Finance (Customs Duties) Act, 1931 (No. 14 of 1931). | ||
(7) Section 42 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 , shall be construed and have effect as if the following article were added to the Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Inwards in that section, that is to say, butter the importation of which is prohibited by this section. |