Control of Manufactures Act, 1934

PART III.

Further Restriction on Manufacture of Certain Commodities.

Reserved commodities.

17.—(1) Whenever the Executive Council is of opinion that a particular commodity is either not being manufactured in Saorstát Eireann or not being manufactured in Saorstát Eireann to a substantial extent, and that it is desirable that such commodity should be manufactured to a substantial extent in Saorstát Eireann, and that the reservation to a limited number of persons of the right to manufacture in Saorstát Eireann such commodity would result in such commodity being manufactured to a substantial extent in Saorstát Eireann, the Executive Council may by order made under and in accordance with this section declare such commodity to be a reserved commodity.

(2) An order under this section may relate to more than one commodity.

(3) No order shall be made under this section in relation to the commodity which is Roman cement, Portland cement or other hydraulic cement.

(4) In making an order under this section the Executive Council may, if they so think fit, fix the period during which such order is to remain in force.

(5) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the making of an order under this section, that is to say:—

(a) before making such order the Executive Council shall publish, in the Iris Oifigiúil and in such other manner as they think best adapted for making public their intention to make such order, a notice of such intention, and such notice shall state the commodity or commodities the subject of the proposed order, and, if the Executive Council propose to fix a period during which such order is to remain in force, the period proposed to be so fixed, and shall also state the time (in this sub-section referred to as the time limited for making objections) within which any objections to the making of such order may be made, and the time limited for making objections to be so stated shall not in any case be less than thirty days after the date of the publication in the Iris Oifigiúil of such notice;

(b) any person objecting to the making of such order may within the time limited for making objections send a statement in writing to the Executive Council of his objection and of the specific grounds on which it is based;

(c) the Executive Council shall not make such order until the expiration of the time limited for making objections and until they have considered such objections (if any) to the making of such order as may have been made within the time limited for making objections.

(6) No order under this section shall come into force unless and until resolutions have been passed by each House of the Oireachtas approving of such order.

(7) Every order under this section which has been approved by resolutions passed by each House of the Oireachtas shall come into force on the date of the passing of whichever of such resolutions is later passed or, if a later date has been specified in such order as the date on which it is to come into force, such later date.

(8) Whenever an order under this section has come into force the particular commodity to which such order relates or, where such order relates to more than one commodity, every commodity to which such order relates shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act be a reserved commodity but shall, if such order fixes a period during which it is to remain in force, cease, from and after the expiration of such period, to be for the said purposes a reserved commodity and the expression “reserved commodity” shall in this Part of this Act be construed accordingly.