S.I. No. 143/1961 - Imposition of Duties (No. 111) (Wheaten Breakfast Foods) Order, 1961.


S.I. No. 143 of 1961.

IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 111) (WHEATEN BREAKFAST FOODS) ORDER, 1961.

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. 111) ( Wheaten Breakfast Foods) Order, 1961.

2. The duty of customs imposed by the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 393) (Wheaten Breakfast Foods) Order, 1957 ( S.I. No. 28 of 1957 ), shall, as respects articles imported on or after the 2lst day of July, 1961, be varied—

(a) by the substitution of " thirty-seven and one-half per cent." for " one hundred per cent." in paragraph 3 of that Order, and

(b) by the substitution of " twenty-five per cent." for " sixty-six and two-thirds per cent. " in paragraph 4 of that Order.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 14th day of July, 1961.

SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to reduce the rate of Customs duty on wheaten breakfast foods to 37½% (full), 25% (U.K. and Canada), ad valorem.