S.I. No. 570/1935 - Customs Duties (Preferential Rates) (Fruit in Water) Order, 1935.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1935. No. 570.

CUSTOMS DUTIES (PREFERENTIAL RATES) (FRUIT IN WATER) ORDER, 1935.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 3 of the Customs Duties (Preferential Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 19 of 1934), that where a duty of customs is imposed after the passing of that Act and the Act, resolution, or order imposing such duty appoints a particular rate of such duty to be the preferential rate thereof for the purposes of the said Act, the Executive Council may by order do, in respect of articles chargeable with such duty and imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after a specified date not prior to the date of such order, certain things and, amongst others, appoint the countries to which such preferential rate shall apply:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of Section 14 of the Finance Act, 1935 (No. 28 of 1935), that there shall be charged, levied, and paid on all fruit of any description (omitting references to time of importation) mentioned in the second column of the Fourth Schedule to the said Act preserved in water (without the addition of sugar or other sweetening matter) which is imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 16th day of May, 1935, a duty of customs at the rate of three pence the pound and it is enacted by sub-section (3) of the same section that the rate of two pence and one halfpenny the pound shall be the preferential rate for the purposes of the said Customs Duties (Preferential Rates) Act, 1934 , in respect of the said duty of customs imposed by the said sub-section (2):

NOW the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 3 of the Customs Duties (Preferential Rates) Act, 1934 (No. 19 of 1934), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Customs Duties (Preferential Rates) (Fruit in Water) Order, 1935.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Union of South Africa are hereby appointed to be the countries to which the preferential rate mentioned in sub-section (3) of Section 14 of the Finance Act, 1935 (No. 28 of 1935), shall apply in respect of articles imported on or after the 4th day of October, 1935, and chargeable with the duty of customs imposed by sub-section (2) of the said Section 14.

DUBLIN.

This 4th day of October, 1935.