No. 12/1932:

CUSTOMS DUTIES (FLOWERS) (PROVISIONAL IMPOSITION) ORDER, 1932.

CUSTOMS DUTIES (FLOWERS) (PROVISIONAL IMPOSITION) ORDER, 1932.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931 (No. 38 of 1931), that whenever the Executive Council is satisfied, on the report of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, that the immediate imposition of a customs duty on any particular description of goods is necessary to prevent an expected dumping of goods of that description arising out of financial or other events in other countries and occurring in circumstances which would occasion industrial injury, the Executive Council may by order impose, whether with or without qualifications, restrictions, or exemptions, a customs duty of such amount as they think proper to specify in such order on all goods of the said particular description imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after a day (not being prior to the day on which such order is made) specified in such order and (if the Executive Council thinks fit so to specify) on all goods of the said particular description landed in Saorstát Eireann on or after the said day:

AND WHEREAS the Executive Council is satisfied, on the report of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, that the immediate imposition of a customs duty on the articles mentioned in the Schedule hereto is necessary to prevent an expected dumping of those articles arising out of financial or other events in other countries and occurring in circumstances which would occasion industrial injury:

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931 (No. 38 of 1931), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Customs Duties (Flowers) (Provisional Imposition) Order, 1932.

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. Subject to the provisions of this Order, there shall be charged, levied, and paid on all articles mentioned in the Schedule hereto imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 19th day of March, 1932, or imported into Saorstát Eireann before the 19th day of March, 1932, and landed in Saorstát Eireann on or after that date a customs duty at the rate of ninepence the pound.

4. The duties imposed by this Order shall not be charged or levied on any article which is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners to have been consigned from a country within the British Commonwealth of Nations and produced entirely in a country or countries within the British Commonwealth of Nations.

SCHEDULE.

1. Cut flowers.

2. Flowers attached to bulbs.

3. Plants in flower.

4. Foliage.

DUBLIN.

This 19th day of March, 1932.