Grass Meal (Production) Act, 1953

Obligation of shareholders (other than Minister for Finance) to hold shares in trust for Minister for Finance.

19.—(1) Every member of the Company (including the subscribers to the Memorandum of Association of the Company but excluding the Minister for Finance) shall hold his share in the Company upon trust for the Minister for Finance, and shall accordingly be bound to pay every dividend, bonus and other money received by such member on or in respect of such share to the said Minister for the benefit of the Exchequer and to transfer, as and when required by the said Minister, such share to the said Minister or a person nominated in that behalf by the said Minister.

(2) The Minister for Finance may, from time to time as occasion requires for the purpose of compliance with so much of the Companies Acts as requires that there shall always be at least seven members of the Company or for the purpose of providing a person appointed, or about to be appointed a director of the Company with the necessary qualification, do either or both of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) transfer to any person one share in the Company for the time being held by the said Minister;

(b) require any member of the Company to transfer any share held by him to the said Minister or any other person.

(3) Save as authorised or required by subsection (2) of this section no member of the Company (including the Minister for Finance) shall transfer or alienate any shares in the Company for the time being held by him.