Tobacco Act, 1934

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Form and effect of experimental manufacturers' licences.

47.—(1) Every experimental manufacturer's licence shall be in such form as the Revenue Commissioners may direct, and shall be expressed and operate to authorise the person to whom such licence is granted to do, subject to the general regulations made by the Revenue Commissioners, the following things, that is to say, to grow tobacco in a specified year on specified land in an area not exceeding the area which is the appointed area for such person, and to cure and rehandle such tobacco.

(2) In this section the expression “the appointed area” means in relation to any person the area of tobacco lawfully grown by such person in the year 1933 or four acres, whichever is the greater.

(3) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to authorise any person to whom an experimental manufacturer's licence is granted to manufacture at any time any tobacco unless such person is the holder of a licence to manufacture tobacco in force at that time.