Turf (Use and Development) Act, 1936

Applications for and right to registration in a register.

8.—(1) Save as is otherwise provided by this section, every person who carries on or proposes to carry on in an appointed area the business of selling coal by retail shall be entitled, on applying in the prescribed form and manner and paying the prescribed fee, to be registered in the register in respect of the premises in such appointed area in which he carries on or proposes to carry on such business.

(2) Where an application for registration in a register is made by a person who proposes to carry on business as a coal retailer in the appointed area to which such register relates, the registration of such person in pursuance of such application shall not become effective until such person commences to carry on such business.

(3) An application for registration in a register may be made at any time after the date of the relevant appointed area order, whether before or after the day on which the declaration of an appointed area made by such order takes effect, and accordingly the expression “appointed area” in the foregoing sub-sections of this section includes an area which has been declared by an appointed area order to be an appointed area as on and from a future date.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-sections of this section, the Minister may, in his absolute discretion, refuse an application by any person for registration in a register if such person has, previous to such application, been registered in that or any other register and such previous registration has been cancelled.