Control of Manufactures Act, 1932

Information from manufacturers and other persons.

11.—(1) The Minister may from time to time serve a notice in writing on any body corporate which by way of trade or for purposes of gain carries on a business to which this section applies requiring such body corporate within sixty days after the service of such notice to send to the Minister a return giving information relating to such matters, not contained in the returns made by such body corporate under the Companies Acts, as are required solely for the purpose of determining the beneficial ownership and the nature or the date of the establishment of such business as may be carried on by such body corporate.

(2) The Minister may from time to time serve a notice in writing on any person who by way of trade or for purposes of gain carries on a business to which this section applies requiring such person within twenty-eight days after the service of such notice to send to the Minister a return giving information in relation to such one or more of the following matters as may be specified in such notice, that is to say:—

(a) the objects of such business;

(b) the date of the establishment of such business;

(c) if such business was being carried on on the 1st day of June, 1932, the nature of business as carried on at that date and the name and address or names and addresses of the person or persons by whom it was beneficially owned at that date;

(d) the name and address or the names and addresses of the person or persons by whom it is beneficially owned at the date of the return, specifying in the case of each such person whether he is or is not a national of Saorstát Eireann and the amount of the capital invested in such business held by him;

(e) such other matters relating to such business as may be specified in such notice and are required for the purpose of determining the beneficial ownership, the nature, or the date of establishment of such business.

(3) The Minister may from time to time serve a notice in writing on any body corporate (in this section referred to as a holding body corporate) which holds any shares in a body corporate carrying on a business to which this section applies requiring such holding body corporate within twenty-eight days after the service of such notice to send to the Minister a return stating any changes in the names or addresses of the shareholders in such holding body corporate since the date of the last return made under the Companies Acts.

(4) The Minister may from time to time serve a notice in writing on any person who holds any shares in a body corporate carrying on a business to which this section applies requiring such person within twenty-eight days after the service of such notice to send to the Minister a return stating whether he is or is not the beneficial owner of such shares and, in respect of such (if any) of the said shares as are held by him for other persons, the names and addresses of such other persons, specifying in the case of each such other person the number and nominal value of the shares held for him.

(5) The Minister may from time to time serve a notice in writing on any person who holds any shares in a holding body corporate requiring such person to state whether he is or is not the beneficial owner of the shares so held by him, and in respect of such (if any) of the said shares as are held by him for other persons, the names and addresses of such other persons, specifying in the case of each such other person the number and nominal value of the shares held for him and whether he is or is not a national of Saorstát Eireann.

(6) If any person on whom a notice is served under this section either refuses or neglects to make a return in accordance with such notice or makes a return which is false or misleading in any material respect, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof in the case of a first conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds, or in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(7) This section applies to every business which includes any one or more of the following things, the making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale of any article, material or substance or any part of any article, material or substance.

(8) A notice under this section may be served by delivering it to the person to whom it is addressed or by sending it by registered post to the person to whom it is addressed at the premises where such person carries on business.