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Grant of milling licences and conditions of licences.
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21.—(1) Where an application is made in accordance with this Act for a milling licence the Minister shall, subject to the provisions of this section, have absolute discretion to grant or to refuse to grant such licence.
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(2) In the case of an application made in accordance with this Act within three months after the commencement of this Part of this Act for a milling licence in respect of a specified mill at which there was milled during any part of the year 1931 any flour or wheaten meal for sale in Saorstát Eireann, the Minister shall not refuse such application except upon the grounds mentioned in the immediately preceding section.
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(3) Every milling licence granted by the Minister shall—
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(a) be in the prescribed form, and
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(b) be expressed and operate to authorise the person who is for the time being the holder of such licence, so long as such licence is in force, to carry on the business of milling wheat at the mill specified in such licence, and
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(c) be and be expressed to be granted subject to the following condition (in this section referred to as the statutory condition) that is to say, in case such licence is granted or transferred to a body corporate which at the date of such grant or transfer is an Irish-owned body corporate, that, so long as such licence is held by such body corporate, such body corporate shall continue to be an Irish-owned body corporate, and
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(d) subject to the provisions of the next succeeding sub-section, be and be expressed to be granted subject to such (if any) prescribed conditions as the Minister thinks proper and states in such licence.
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(4) Where in pursuance of an application made within three months after the commencement of this Part of this Act a milling licence in respect of a specified mill at which there was milled during any part of the year 1931 any flour or wheaten meal for sale in Saorstát Eireann is granted to a person who is at the date of the grant of such licence a national of Saorstát Eireann, or a body corporate which at the date of the grant of such licence is an Irish-owned body corporate, there shall not be attached to such licence any conditions except the statutory condition.
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