S.I. No. 222/1958 - Imposition of Duties (No. 49) (Wheat) Order, 1958.

S.I. No. 222 of 1958.

IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 49) (WHEAT) ORDER, 1958.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Imposition of Duties Act, 1957 (No. 7 of 1957), hereby order as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the Imposition of Duties (No. 49) (Wheat) Order, 1958.

2. A duty of customs at the rate of two pounds per ton shall be charged, levied and paid on wheat imported on or after the 15th day of November, 1958.

3. 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 wheat or, in the case of any wheat 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 United Kingdom) Act, 1938 (No. 12 of 1938).

4. 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 14th day of November, 1958.

EAMON DE VALERA,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order imposes a Customs duty of £2 per ton on wheat imported on or after 15th November, 1958, and makes provision for the grant of duty free licences.