01/03/1937: Exportation Of Certain Goods (Implements Of War Or War Material) Order, 1937

01/03/1937: ORDER MADE BY THE REVENUE COMMISSIONERS,

Dated 1st March, 1937.

The Revenue Commissioners, in pursuance of the powers conferred on them by Section 139 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, hereby order as follows:—

1. The exporter or shipper of any of the articles mentioned in the Schedule to this Order intended for exportation shall make due entry and obtain clearance of such articles before shipment or exportation.

2. The entry required under Paragraph 1 of this Order shall be made by delivering to the Collector or other proper Officer of Customs and Excise a Specification in the approved form, duly completed, in duplicate.

3. The entry shall specify, in addition to the other particulars required to be shown thereon,

(a) the name and address of the consignor or supplier of the articles ;

(b) the name and address of the consignee of the articles; and

(c) the name and address of the owner of the articles; and shall in all cases contain a declaration on the part of the person making the entry that the particulars in the entry are true and correctly stated.

4. The clearance required under Paragraph 1 of this Order shall be granted by the signature of the proper Officer of Customs and Excise on the document on which entry has been made in pursuance of this Order.

5. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1937.

6. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

7. This Order may be cited as the Exportation of Implements of War or War Material (Entry) Order, 1937.

M. V. NOLAN,

Revenue Commissioner.

Dublin Castle,

1st March, 1937.

SCHEDULE.

Implements of War and War Material.

Category I.

1. Rifles and carbines and their barrels.

2. Machine-guns, automatic rifles and machine pistols of all calibres and their barrels.

3. Guns, howitzers and mortars of all calibres, their mountings, barrels and recoil mechanisms.

4. Ammunition for the arms enumerated under 1 and 2 above ; filled and unfilled projectiles for the arms enumerated under 3 above, and prepared propellant charges for these arms.

5. Grenades, bombs, torpedoes and mines, filled or unfilled, and apparatus for their use or discharge.

6. Tanks, armoured vehicles and armoured trains. Armourplate of all kinds.

Category II.

Vessels of war of all kinds, including aircraft-carriers and submarines.

Category III.

1. Aircraft, assembled or dismantled, both heavier and lighter than air, and their propellers or air-screws fuselages, aerial gun-mounts and frames, hulls, tail units and under-carriage units.

2. Aircraft-engines.

Category IV.

Revolvers and automatic pistols of a weight in excess of 1 lb. 6 ozs. (630 grammes) and ammunition therefor.

Category V.

1. Flame-throwers and all other projectors used for chemical or incendiary warfare.

2. Mustard gas, Lewisite, ethyldichlorarsine, methyldichlorarsine, and all other products destined for chemical or incendiary warfare.

3. Powder for war purposes, and explosives.