Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931

Effect of orders under this Act.

2.—(1) An order made by the Executive Council under this Act shall have effect immediately upon the making thereof and shall cease to have effect in or upon the happening of whichever of the following events first occurs that is to say:—

(a) if a resolution approving of such order, with or without modification, is not passed by Dáil Eireann within the next ten days on which Dáil Eireann sits after the day on which such order is made;

(b) if a Bill containing provisions to the same effect (with or without modification) as such order is not read a second time by Dáil Eireann within the next twenty days on which Dáil Eireann sits after the passing by Dáil Eireann of a resolution approving (with or without modification) of such order;

(c) if the said provisions of the said Bill are rejected by Dáil Eireann during the passage of such Bill through the Oireachtas;

(d) the coming into operation of an Act of the Oireachtas containing provisions to the same effect (with or without modification) as such order;

(e) the expiration of a period of four months from the day on which such order is made.

(2) If, within the next ten days on which Dáil Eireann sits after an order is made by the Executive Council under this Act, Dáil Eireann passes a resolution approving of such order with modifications, such resolution shall operate to modify such order in accordance with such resolution, and as from the passing of such resolution such order shall, until it ceases under this Act to have effect, have effect subject to such modifications.