S.I. No. 255/1967 - Imposition of Duties (No. 165) (Customs Duties and Form of Customs Tariff) Order, 1967.

S.I. No. 255 of 1967.

IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 165) (CUSTOMS DUTIES AND FORM OF CUSTOMS TARIFF) ORDER, 1967.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Imposition of Duties Act, 1957 (No. 7 of 1957), and section 22 of the Finance Act, 1962 (No. 15 of 1962), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Imposition of Duties (No. 165) (Customs Duties and Form of Customs Tariff) Order, 1967.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 30th day of November, 1967.

3. The Imposition of Duties (No. 159) (Customs Duties and Form of Customs Tariff) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 132 of 1966 .), as amended, is hereby further amended by—

(a) the substitution for paragraph 10 of the following paragraph:

"10. Whenever the Minister for Finance so thinks proper and so directs, the functions assigned to the Revenue Commissioners by paragraphs 6, 8 and 12 of this Order may be exercised by the Minister for Industry and Commerce,"

(b) the substitution for paragraph 12 of the following paragraph:

"12. Whenever '(e)' is mentioned in the second column of the Schedule at any tariff heading the following provision shall apply in relation to the duty imposed by this Order on the goods mentioned in the first column of the Schedule at that tariff heading, that is to say, whenever the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce so thinks proper, the Revenue Commissioners may by licence authorise, subject to compliance with such conditions as they may think fit to impose, the importation of, or, in the case of goods already imported, the delivery of, upon payment of the said duty at the rate of twenty per cent or thirty-two and one-half per cent of the value of the goods, any goods chargeable with the said 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."

(c) the substitution of "seventeen and one-half per cent" for "twenty per cent" in paragraph 28 (1) (b),

(d) the substitution of "17½ per cent" for "20 per cent in each place where it occurs in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh columns of the Schedule at tariff heading numbers 87.01 (D) (1), 87.02 (A) (1), 87.02 (B) (1), 87.02 (D) (1) (a), 87.02 (D) (1) (b), 87.03 (B) (1), 87.04 (B) (1) (b), 87.05 (B) (1), 87.08 (A) and 87.14 (A) (1),

(e) the deletion of "(e)" in the second column of the Schedule at tariff heading numbers 40.11 (A), 87.04 (B) (2) (a), 87.05 (B) (2) (a) (i), 87.06 (E) (1) (a), 87.06 (E) (1) (b) (i), 87.06 (E) (2) and 87.06 (E) (3),

(f) the insertion of "(e)" in the second column of the Schedule at tariff heading numbers 87.01 (D) (2), 87.02 (A) (2) (b) (i), 87.02 (B) (2) (b) and 87.02 (D) (2) (a) and

(g) the insertion of "(a)" in the second column of the Schedule at tariff heading number 40.11 (A) (3).

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 23rd day of November, 1967.

SEÁN Ó LOINSIGH,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of this Order is to make provision for the issue of licences permitting the importation, at reduced rates of duty, of certain motor vehicles and for the reduction of the duty on aggregates of parts of such motor vehicles.