Finance Act, 1933
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Duty on fruit. |
6.—(1) There shall be charged, levied, and paid on all raw fruit of any of the several descriptions mentioned in the second column of the Third Schedule to this Act and all fruit of any of the said several descriptions preserved in water without the addition of sugar or other sweetening matter imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 11th day of May, 1933, a customs duty at the rate mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention in the second column of the said Schedule of such description of fruit. | |
(2) There shall be charged, levied, and paid on all pulp or juice which is wholly or partly derived or prepared from fruit of any description (omitting references to time of importation) mentioned in the second column of the Third Schedule to this Act and is imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 11th day of May, 1933, a customs duty at the rate of one penny the pound. | ||
(3) Whenever it is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that the duty imposed by this section has been duly paid in respect of any article and that such article has not been used in Saorstát Eireann otherwise than for the purpose of manufacture, a drawback equal to the amount of the duty so paid shall be allowed on such article or on any goods in the manufacture or preparation of which such article is shown to have been used if such article or such goods (as the case may be) is or are exported as merchandise or shipped for use as stores or deposited in a bonded warehouse for shipment as stores. | ||
(4) Section 6 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879 , shall not apply to any article chargeable with the duty imposed by this section. | ||
(5) Any article chargeable with the duty imposed by this section which is re-imported into Saorstát Eireann after exportation therefrom shall be exempt from such duty if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners either— | ||
(a) that such article had not been imported prior to its exportation, or | ||
(b) that such article had been imported prior to its exportation and was not, at the time of such importation, liable to any duty of customs, or | ||
(c) that such article had been imported prior to its exportation and that all duties of customs to which it was liable on such importation had been duly paid and either no drawback of duty had been allowed on such exportation or all drawback so allowed had been repaid to the Revenue Commissioners. | ||
(6) Articles which have been imported and exported by way of transit only shall not be deemed to have been imported or exported for the purposes of the next preceding sub-section of this section. | ||
(7) 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 section any articles chargeable with 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. |