Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933

Restrictions on importation of scheduled feeding stuffs.

91.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to import into Saorstát Eireann any scheduled feeding stuff or any substance (other than an excepted article) used in the preparation of any scheduled feeding stuff unless under and in accordance with a licence granted under this Part of this Act by the Minister for Agriculture.

(2) If any person acts in contravention of this section such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part II of the First Schedule to this Act.

(3) An offence under this section may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister for Agriculture as prosecutor.

(4) Each of the articles specified in sub-paragraphs (b) to (w), both inclusive, of paragraph 7 of the Third Schedule to this Act shall be an excepted article for the purposes of this section, but if the Minister makes an order declaring that any of the said articles shall be a scheduled feeding stuff for the purposes of this Part of this Act, the article to which such order relates shall cease to be an excepted article for the purposes of this section.