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S.I. No. 192/1950 - Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 255) Order, 1950.

S.I. No. 192 of 1950.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 255) ORDER, 1950.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 255) Order, 1950.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3.—(1) A duty of customs at the rate of 2d. per lb. shall be charged, levied and paid on dried peas imported on or after the 1st day of August, 1950.

(2) The duty imposed by this Order is in substitution for the duty imposed by section 11 of the Finance Act, 1935 (No. 28 of 1935), and mentioned as reference number 12 in the Second Schedule to that Act.

4. Section 7 of the Finance (Agreement with the United Kingdom) Act, 1938 (No. 12 of 1938), shall apply and have effect in relation to the duty imposed by this Order as if the product chargeable with that duty were mentioned in the second column of the Second Schedule to the said Act, and this Order were mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of the said product in the said second column, and the rate of 1 1/3d. the lb. were specified in the fourth column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of the said product in the said second column.

5. Whenever the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, so thinks proper, the Revenue Commissioners may by licence authorise any particular person, subject to compliance with such conditions as they may think fit to impose, to import without payment of the duty imposed by this Order any product chargeable with such duty or, in the case of any such product already imported, to take delivery thereof without payment of such duty either, as the Revenue Commissioners shall think proper, without limit as to time or quantity or either of them or within a specified time or in a specified quantity, but so that no such licence shall be exempt from the provisions of section 15 of the Finance (Agreement with the United Kingdom) Act, 1938 (No. 12 of 1938).

6. The duty imposed by this Order is hereby placed under the care and management of the Revenue Commissioners.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 25th day of July, 1950.

(Signed) WILLIAM NORTON,

Tánaiste.