PART I.

Preliminary and General.

Short title.

1. —This Act may be cited as the Industrial Alcohol Act, 1938.

Definitions.

2. —In this Act—

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

the expression “industrial alcohol” means ethyl alcohol, whether denatured or not, which has been distilled or rectified to a strength of not less than forty degrees overproof by a process other than the pot still process;

the expression “the undertaking” means the business of manufacturing and selling industrial alcohol which the Minister is authorised by the Industrial Alcohol Act, 1934 (No. 40 of 1934), to carry on.

“The appointed day.”

3. —(1) The Minister may by order appoint a day to be the appointed day for the purposes of this Act.

(2) In this Act the expression “the appointed day” means the day appointed by the Minister by order under this section to be the appointed day for the purposes of this Act.

Prosecution of offences under Parts III, V and VI.

4. —An offence under any section contained in Part III , Part V or Part VI of this Act may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister as prosecutor.

Expenses of the Minister.

5. —All expenses incurred by the Minister under this Act and not otherwise specially provided for shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

Repeal of Industrial Alcohol Act, 1934 .

6. —The Industrial Alcohol Act, 1934 (No. 40 of 1934), is hereby repealed as on and from the appointed day.