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Duty on tobacco produced in Ireland. Bringing into operation and re-enactment of the Irish Tobacco Act, 1907.
26 & 27 Vict. c. 7.
1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 13.
7 Edw. 7. c. 3.
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3.—(1) There shall be charged, levied, and paid, on and after the first day of January nineteen hundred and nine, on tobacco grown in Ireland, the following Excise duties, namely:—
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s.
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d.
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Upon tobacco, manufactured, namely—
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Cavendish, or negro head manufactured, in bond the lb.
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3
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10
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Upon tobacco, unmanufactured, namely—
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Tobacco containing 10 lbs. or more of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof - the lb.
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2
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10
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Tobacco containing less than 10 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof - the lb.
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3
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2
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and there shall be charged, on and after the same date, on a licence to be taken out annually by every person growing, cultivating, or curing tobacco, in Ireland, an excise duty of five shillings.
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(2) The Commissioners of Inland Revenue may make regulations generally for securing and collecting the excise duties payable under this section and for prohibiting the growth or cultivation of tobacco in Ireland, and the curing of tobacco so grown, except by persons holding a licence and having made entry for the purpose, and on land or premises approved by the Commissioners for the purpose, and for regulating the removal of tobacco so grown and enabling a licensed manufacturer of tobacco to receive any such tobacco.
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The Commissioners may, by any such regulations, apply any provision of the law of excise, whether relating to excise duties generally or to any special article on which an excise duty is payable, and any provision of the Manufactured Tobacco Act, 1863, or any Act amending the same.
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If any person acts in contravention of, or fails to comply with, any such regulation, the article in respect of which the offence is committed shall be forfeited, and the person committing the offence shall be liable in respect of each offence to an excise penalty of fifty pounds.
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(3) The Commissioners of Inland Revenue may, notwithstanding anything in this section, permit any person to grow tobacco in Ireland for experimental purposes only, subject to any special regulations and conditions they think fit, and with the benefit of any allowance in respect of the duty for the time being payable as may be sanctioned by the Treasury.
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(4) So much of the Tobacco Cultivation Act, 1831, and any other Act, as prohibits or restrains the setting, planting, or improving to grow, making, or curing tobacco either in seed or plant or otherwise in the Kingdom of Ireland, and section four of the Tobacco Cultivation Act, 1831, so far as it relates to tobacco grown in Ireland upon which the duty under this section has been paid, and the Irish Tobacco Act, 1907, are hereby repealed as from the first day of January nineteen hundred and nine.
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