No. 47/1936:

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 97) ORDER, 1936.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 97) ORDER, 1936.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), that the Executive Council may, by order, do 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 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. This Order may be cited as the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 97) Order, 1936.

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. The several duties of customs imposed by paragraph 6 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 5) Order, 1932 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 112 of 1932), as amended by subsequent enactments and orders, shall, in respect of articles imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 19th day of February, 1936, be charged, levied, and paid at the following rates respectively in lieu of the rates mentioned in the third column of the Schedule to the said Order, that is to say:—

(a) the duties respectively mentioned at reference numbers 2, 3, and 7 in the said Schedule to the said Order— at the rate of an amount equal to ten per cent. of the value of the article ;

(b) the duty mentioned at reference number 4 in the said Schedule—at the rate of one shilling and two pence the hundredweight;

(c) the duty mentioned at reference number 5 in the said Schedule—at the rate of four pence and one half-penny the ounce;

(d) the duty mentioned at reference number 6 in the said Schedule—if the articles are prescribed in the official import list to be entered on importation by weight, at the rate of one-eighth of one penny the pound, and if the articles are prescribed in the official import list to be entered on importation by measure, at the rate of one penny and one half-penny the gallon.

DUBLIN.

This 18th day of February, 1936.