S.I. No. 123/1933 - Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 17) Order, 1933.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1933. No. 123.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 17) ORDER, 1933.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), that the Executive Council may, if and whenever they think proper, do by order all or any of certain things mentioned in that section and, amongst others, vary in any manner or respect whatsoever, in regard to goods imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after a specified day any customs duty in force at the passing of that Act or imposed by any Act passed or order made after the passing of that Act, or any qualification. limitation, drawback, allowance, exemption, or preferential rate in force at the date of such order in relation to any such duty.

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—

1 Short title

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 1) Order, 1933.

2 Interpretation.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3 Variation of duty on empty bee bottles.

3. The duty on certain empty glass bottles and empty glass jars imposed by section 4 of the Finance Act 1933 (No. 15 of 1933), and mentioned at reference number 14 in the First Schedule to that Act shall, in respect of all bottles chargeable with that duty which are imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 1st day of November, 1933, and are, in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners, designed, constructed, and intended for use for bottling beer be charged, levied and paid at whichever of the following rates produces in each particular case the greater amount of duty, that, is to say:—

(a) the rate of eight shillings per gross of one hundred and forty-four bottles; or

(b) the rate stated at the said reference number 14.

4 Non-application or Section 8 o the Finance Act, 1919.

4. The provisions of section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919, shall not apply to the said duty when chargeable in pursuance of this Order at the rate of eight shillings per gross of one hundred and forty-four bottles.

DUBLIN,

This 31st day of October, 1933.