S.I. No. 37/1958:

IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 16) (RAW TOMATOES) ORDER, 1958.

IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 16) (RAW TOMATOES) ORDER, 1958.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 1 of the Imposition of Duties Act, 1957 (No. 7 of 1957), hereby order as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the Imposition of Duties (No. 16) (Raw Tomatoes) Order, 1958.

2. A duty of customs at the rate of sixpence the pound shall be charged, levied and paid on the following articles imported on or after the 1st day of June in any year and on or before the 31st day of October in that year, that is to say, raw tomatoes.

3. Whenever the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, so thinks proper, the Revenue Commissioners may by licence authorise any particular person, subject to compliance with such conditions as they may think fit to impose, to import without payment of the duty imposed by this Order any articles chargeable with such duty or, in the case of any such articles already imported, to take delivery thereof without payment of such 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, but so that no such licence shall be exempt from the provisions of section 15 of the Finance (Agreement with United Kingdom) Act, 1938 (No. 12 of 1938).

4. Section 7 of the Finance (Agreement with United Kingdom) Act, 1938 (No. 12 of 1938), shall apply and have effect in relation to the duty imposed by this Order as if the articles chargeable with that duty were mentioned in the second column of the Second Schedule to the said Act, and this Order were mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of the said articles in the said second column, and the rate of four pence the pound were specified in the fourth column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of the said articles in the said second column.

5. The duty imposed by section 2 of the Finance (Customs Duties) (No. 4) Act, 1932 (No. 34 of 1932), and mentioned at reference number 9 in the Second Schedule to that Act shall not be charged or levied on articles chargeable with the duty imposed by this Order.

6. The duty imposed by this Order is hereby placed under the care and management of the Revenue Commissioners.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 6th day of February, 1958.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to impose a duty of 6d. per lb. (full), 4d. per lb. (preferential--United Kingdom and Canada) on raw tomatoes imported during the period 1st June to 31st October inclusive each year, in place of the duty of 2d. per lb. (full), free (preferential) which has operated hitherto during the period 24th June to 31st October.