Turf (Use and Development) Act, 1936

Definitions.

1.—In this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Industry and Commerce;

the expression “the Board” means the Turf Development Board, Limited;

the word “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act;

the word “inspector” means an officer of the Minister appointed (either generally or for a particular purpose) in writing by the Minister to be an inspector for the purpose or any particular purpose of this Act;

the word “turf” includes peat, and also includes briquettes made wholly or mainly of peat, but does not include peat moss litter;

the word “coal” means coal mined outside Saorstát Eireann and includes briquettes made wholly or mainly of such coal or the dust of such coal, but does not include coke;

the expression “coal retailer” means a person who carries on the business of selling coal by retail;

the word “register” when used as a noun and without qualification means a register of coal retailers kept by the Minister in pursuance of this Act;

the expression “registered coal retailer” means a coal retailer who is registered in a register of coal retailers kept by the Minister in pursuance of this Act, and the said expression when used in relation to an appointed area means a coal retailer registered in the register of coal retailers so kept in respect of such appointed area;

the word “delivery” wherever it occurs in the expression “sale and delivery” includes delivery at the premises of the coal retailer in relation to whom that expression is used;

the expression “consumption for domestic or household purposes” means consumption by burning for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:—

(a) heating the whole or any part of any building or other place which is used as a dwelling-house for human beings, or as a stable for any kind of animal, or as a place in which human beings do any kind of work or to which human beings resort for any purpose, or

(b) the cooking of food, whether for human beings or animals, or

(c) the heating of water for any purpose other than the generation of steam in a steam engine.