Industrial Alcohol (Amendment) Act, 1947

Restriction on importation of chemical products.

8.—(1) The Government may, whenever and so often as they think fit, by order prohibit the importation of any specified chemical product otherwise than in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued under this section.

(2) The Government may at any time by order revoke or amend an order previously made under this section, including an order under this subsection.

(3) It shall not be lawful for any person to import or attempt to import any chemical product in contravention of an order made under this section.

(4) On the application of any person the Minister may, if he thinks fit, issue to such person a licence to import a chemical product the import of which is prohibited by an order under this section, and may attach to any such licence such conditions as he thinks proper and specifies in the licence.

(5) Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling such order is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which such House has sat after such order is so laid before it, such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.

(6) In this section, the expression “chemical product” means any substance, all or any portion of which is produced or obtained by chemical process, and includes industrial alcohol and any product or derivative thereof.