S.I. No. 226/1953:

CONTROL OF EXPORTS ORDER, 1953.

CONTROL OF EXPORTS ORDER, 1953.

I, SEAN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Article 31 of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (S. R. & O. No. 224 of 1939), as amended by the Emergency Powers (No. 173) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 166 of 1942) (which Orders are continued in force by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946) ), hereby order as follows :

1.--(1) This Order may be cited as the Control of Exports Order, 1953.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1953.

2. In this Order--

" controlled articles " means articles specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Order, not being articles specified in Part II of that Schedule ;

" export " includes the exportation of articles brought into the State for transhipment, whether under bond or otherwise ;

" appropriate officer " means, in the case of articles being exported by parcel post, an officer of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and, in any other case, the proper officer of Customs and Excise.

3. A person shall not export any controlled articles unless--

(a) the articles are exported under and in accordance with a licence under this Order, and

(b) the licence is delivered to the appropriate officer before the exportation.

4.--(1) A Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, issue a licence to export any controlled articles of a particular description with or without limitation as to quantity, number or value.

(2) Whenever a Minister issues a licence under this Order, he may attach to the licence any one or more of the following conditions :

(a) a condition that the controlled articles to which the licence relates shall be exported within a specified time or during a specified period,

(b) a condition that such articles shall be exported at a specified port or place or by a specified route,

(c) a condition that such articles shall not be exported in more than a specified number of consignments,

(d) a condition that such articles shall be exported by a specified person,

(e) a condition that such articles shall be consigned to a specified consignee,

(f) such other conditions as such Minister thinks fit.

(3) Licences under the Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940 (S. R. & O. No. 149 of 1940), and permits under the Emergency Powers (Export of Whiskey) Order, 1941 (S. R. & O. No. 26 of 1942), which were in force immediately before the commencement of this Order shall continue in force as if they were licences under this Order.

5. This Order does not apply to the exportation of controlled articles as respects which the appropriate officer is satisfied that such articles--

(a) are being exported for repair and return,

(b) are travellers' samples being exported after being imported temporarily,

(c) are travellers' samples being exported temporarily to be subsequently re-imported,

(d) are being re-exported to the country from which they were imported as a result of being refused by the consignees, or

(e) are used containers of any material or description which are being re-exported empty to the sender.

6. Nothing in this Order shall be construed as affecting in any way the operation of any Act (whether passed before or after the commencement of this Order), or any instrument made (whether before or after the commencement of this Order) by virtue of such Act, which authorises and provides for the control, regulation, restriction or prohibition of the export of any articles.

7. The Orders specified in the Second Schedule to this Order are hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Abrasives of silicon carbide and boron carbide.

Arms, ammunition and military and naval stores.

Asbestos.

Carbon black.

Cement.

Chemicals and drugs.

Coke and coke flour derived from petroleum and coal tar pitch.

Core drill bits.

Crucibles of artificial graphite.

Diamonds for industrial use.

Electrical goods and apparatus.

Fertilisers.

Glassware, scientific.

Graphite, artificial, amorphous carbon and carbon powder.

Hares, dead.

Hides of cattle and horses and pieces of such hides.

Horns and hooves of cattle.

Iron and steel and manufactures thereof.

Leather.

Machinery and parts (including flax scutching machinery).

Malted barley.

Magnesium silicate (steatite).

Mica slabs, sheet and splittings.

Military-type jigs, fixtures and plate metal working accessories.

Non-ferrous ores, metals and manufactures thereof.

Oilseeds, oils, fats, resins, gums and manufactures thereof.

Paper-making materials, including waste paper.

Paper or synthetic film for dielectric use (condenser tissue) coated or uncoated, 0·0015 inch (0·038 mm) or less in thickness.

Rags and textile clippings of all descriptions.

Refractory materials and products.

Rice.

Rubber and rubber manufactures as follows :

Tyres, tyre casings, inner tubes, high-pressure rotary drilling hose, meteorological balloons and water lubricated bearings.

Scientific apparatus.

Sheep or lamb pelt from which the wool has been removed (whether processed or not) and pieces thereof.

Sheepskin pieces.

Spirits other than methylated spirits.

Sugar and sugar syrup, molasses and glucose. All commodities which are made from sugar or other sweetening matter or to which sugar or other sweetening matter has been added in the course of preparation.

Surgical, medical and dental instruments and appliances.

Tar.

Tea.

Tools (including dies and slugs) incorporating diamonds.

Vehicles (including locomotives, tractors, ships, aeroplanes and parts).

Wheat products as follows :

Commodities in the preparation of which wheat or any product of wheat is used, other than commodities to which sugar or other sweetening matter has been added in the course of preparation.

Wood and timber and manufactures thereof.

PART II.

Appliances, apparatus, accessories and requisites (including gaming machines) for sports, games, gymnastics or athletics.

Appliances, equipment, utensils (including cooking, heating, washing and cleaning apparatus) suitable only for domestic use.

Beads.

FIRST SCHEDULE--contd.

Belldomes and gongs.

Binoculars.

Book-ends.

Brooms and Brushes.

Buttons.

Candles.

Church Furniture and Church requisites.

Cigar and cigarette cases and boxes and articles of which such cases or boxes form part.

Cigar and cigarette holders.

Clocks and watches.

Combs.

Cork and manufactures thereof.

Chemicals as follows :

Cosmetics, detergents, disinfectants, fungicides, glycerine (crude), gypsum, hair lotion, insecticides, ochre, perfumery, rat poisons, sheep dips, weedkillers, dyes and colours, menthol.

Electrical glass bulbs.

Fancy blotters.

Flapjacks.

Fountain pens and pencils.

Furniture, wooden (including antique furniture).

Guns, sporting.

Haberdashery.

Hotel ware made from imported stampings.

Inkstands.

Iron and steel manufactures as follows :

rounds, squares, flats and angles, structural steelwork, metal windows, fencing and fencing posts, hand implements, pedal cycles, children's carriages and accessories therefor.

Jewellery boxes.

Lanterns.

Lipstick containers.

Machinery and parts as follows :

Agricultural and horticultural machinery, concrete block making machines, concrete mixers and office machines.

Manicure sets.

Manufactures of silver, electro-plate and nickel silver.

Margarine.

Matches.

Mechanical lighters.

Medicines and medicinal preparations.

Musical instruments and accessories therefor.

Nail cleaners, clippers, files and polishers.

Pipes for smoking tobacco and parts thereof.

Photograph and picture frames.

Powder bowls, boxes, puffs.

Radio receiving sets (domestic), radiograms and accessories therefor.

Religious medals.

Smokers' ash receptacles.

Soap.

Souvenirs.

Spectacles and parts.

Spring interior mattresses and bases therefor.

Commodities which are made from sugar or other sweetening matter or to which sugar or other sweetening matter has been added in the course of preparation, being commodities which are exported by parcel post.

Commodities to which sugar or other sweetening matter has been added in the course of preparation as follows :

Prune wine, ginger wine, birch wine, blackcurrant wine, cowslip wine, barley wine ; Candied root vegetables ; any of the following, being tinned or bottled : beans, beans in tomato sauce, beans in tomato sauce with pork, beans with pork, peas, peas in tomato sauce, carrots, beetroot, tomato soup, tomato juice.

Toys.

Vacuum flasks.

Wire recorders.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940. (S. R. & O. No. 149 of 1940).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 1) Order, 1940. (S. R. & O. No. 169 of 1940).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order, 1940. (S. R. & O. No. 287 of 1940).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order, 1940. (S. R. & O. No. 332 of 1940).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 4) Order, 1940. (S. R. & O. No. 337 of 1940).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 5) Order, 1940. (S. R. & O. No. 371 of 1940).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 6) Order, 1941. (S. R. & O. No. 18 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 7) Order, 1941. (S. R. & O. No. 76 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 8) Order, 1941. (S. R. & O. No. 186 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 9) Order, 1941. (S. R. & O. No. 330 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 10) Order, 1941. (S. R. & O. No. 406 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 11) Order, 1941. (S. R. & O. No. 415 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 12) Order, 1941. (S. R. & O. No. 501 of 1941).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 13) Order, 1941. (S. R. & O. No. 53 of 1942).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 14) Order, 1942. (S. R. & O. No. 75 of 1942).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 15) Order, 1942. (S. R. & O. No. 192 of 1942).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 16) Order, 1942. (S. R. & O. No. 249 of 1942).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 17) Order, 1942. (S. R. & O. No. 434 of 1942).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 18) Order, 1942. (S. R. & O. No. 501 of 1942).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 19) Order, 1943. (S. R. & O. No. 117 of 1943).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 20) Order, 1943.

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 21) Order, 1943. (S. R. & O. No. 359 of 1943).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 22) Order, 1944. (S. R. & O. No. 7 of 1944).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 23) Order, 1944. (S. R. & O. No. 227 of 1944).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 24) Order, 1946. (S. R. & O. No. 2 of 1946).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 25) Order, 1946. (S. R. & O. No. 215 of 1946).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 26) Order, 1947. (S. R. & O. No. 385 of 1947).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 27) Order, 1948. ( S.I. No. 140 of 1948 ).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 28) Order, 1948. ( S.I. No. 152 of 1948 ).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) (Amendment) (No. 29) Order, 1948 ( S.I. No. 391 of 1948 ).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940 (Amendment) (No. 30) Order, 1948. ( S.I. No. 427 of 1948 ).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940 (Amendment) (No. 31) Order, 1949. ( S.I. No. 138 of 1949 ).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940 (Amendment) (No. 32) Order, 1949. ( S.I. No. 178 of 1949 ).

SECOND SCHEDULE--contd.

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940 (Amendment) (No. 34) Order, 1951. ( S.I. No. 51 of 1951 ).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940 (Amendment) (No. 35) Order, 1952. ( S.I. No. 17 of 1952 ).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940 (Amendment) (No. 36) (Sugar and Sweetening Matter) Order, 1952 ( S.I. No. 182 of 1952 ).

Emergency Powers (Control of Export) Order, 1940 (Amendment) (No. 37) (Spirits) Order, 1953. ( S.I. No. 99 of 1953 ).

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 29th day of June, 1953.

(Signed) SEAN F. LEMASS.