Restriction of Imports Act, 1962

Restriction of Imports.

2.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, the Government may by order prohibit, save under and in accordance with a licence issued by a specified Minister of State, the importation of—

(a) any goods manufactured or produced in or consigned from a specified country or territory, or

(b) goods of a specified description manufactured or produced in or consigned from a specified country or territory.

(2) An order under this section relating to goods manufactured or produced in a specified country or territory may, if the Government so think proper,—

(a) contain provisions in accordance with which it shall be determined for the purposes of the order whether goods were manufactured or produced in that country or territory, or

(b) authorise the Minister of State specified in the order to prescribe, if he so thinks proper, such provisions by regulations.

(3) The Government may by order revoke or amend any order made under this section (including this subsection).

(4) Every order made under this section or regulation made under any such order shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and, if a resolution annulling the order or regulation is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order or regulation is laid before it, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.