Industrial Alcohol Act, 1938

Power of Minister for Finance to acquire shares by subscription and to underwrite issue of shares.

10.—(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of this section, the Minister for Finance may from time to time take up by subscription any class or classes of shares of the Company.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of this section, the Minister for Finance may, subject to such conditions as he may think fit, agree with the Company that, if any shares of the Company about to be offered at any time for subscription are not within a specified time taken up by the public, he will take up and pay for such shares or some specified proportion thereof.

(3) The total amount which may be expended by the Minister for Finance in the acquisition (under either or both of the two immediately preceding sub-sections) of shares of the Company shall not exceed the following sum, that is to say, five hundred thousand pounds less the nominal value of the shares to be issued to him under the next following section.