Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Act, 1831

No action, &c. to be brought against an officer without a month’s notice as required by 7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 53.; which Act shall extend to this Act.

52. No writ, summons, or process shall be sued out against or served on, nor shall any action be brought or prosecuted against, any officer of excise, or any person acting in the aid and assistance of any such officer, or against any other person, for anything done in pursuance of this Act, until the expiration of one calendar month’s notice in writing shall have been delivered to such officer or person, in manner required by an Act made in the seventh and eighth years of his late Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the collection and management of the revenue of excise throughout Great Britain and Ireland”; which said Act shall, in all matters and things not expressly provided for in this Act, or not repugnant thereto, or hereby altered or varied, extend to this Act.