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PART VIII.
Powers of Minister to Carry on Businesses and to Lend Money for the Development of Businesses.
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Power of Minister to engage in certain businesses.
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36.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance to engage in and carry on all or any of the following businesses, that is to say:—
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(a) the purchase, keeping, and slaughter of cattle and sheep;
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(b) the sale of cattle and sheep, either in or outside Saorstát Eireann;
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(c) the sale, either in or outside Saorstát Eireann, of the carcases, offals, and other parts, edible or inedible, of cattle and sheep;
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(d) the treating, preparing and making suitable for sale (whether in their original or some other form or for further treatment or manufacture) of the carcases, offals and other parts, edible or inedible, of cattle and sheep;
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(e) the manufacture or preparation for human consumption or for any other purpose of any marketable product from the carcases, offals, and other parts, edible or inedible, of cattle and sheep;
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(f) the sale, in or outside Saorstát Eireann, of the products of all or any of the processes mentioned in the two next preceding paragraphs of this sub-section;
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(g) any business which is ancillary or incidental to any business mentioned in any of the foregoing paragraphs of this sub-section.
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(2) For the purpose of engaging in or carrying on any business authorised by this section, the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance may do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—
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(a) purchase, maintain, use, and sell plant, machinery, tools, and other equipment;
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(b) purchase and use feeding stuffs and other consumable stores;
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(c) engage, employ, and dismiss managers, assistants, workmen, and other persons;
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(d) enter into contracts;
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(e) do all such other acts and things as may be necessary for or incidental to the conduct of any such business.
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(3) The Civil Service Regulation Acts, 1924 and 1926, shall not apply to persons engaged or employed by the Minister under paragraph (c) of the next preceding sub-section of this section.
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(4) It shall be lawful for the Minister to do anything which he is authorised by this section to do either, as he shall in each particular case think proper, through and by his own officers and other persons in the Civil Service of Saorstát Eireann, or through and by persons specially employed by him for the particular purpose in hand, or through and by agents, contractors, and other like persons, or party in one and partly in one and partly in another or others of those ways.
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