S.I. No. 20/1924 - The Customs (Land Frontier) Regulations, 1924


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1924. No. 20.

THE CUSTOMS (LAND FRONTIER) REGULATIONS, 1924.

THE CUSTOMS (LAND FRONTIER) REGULATIONS, 1924, DATED 17th JUNE, 1924, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR FINANCE UNDER SECTION 13 of THE ADAPTATION OF ENACTMENTS ACT, 1922 .

The Minister for Finance in exercise of the powers vested in him by Section Thirteen of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 , and of every other power enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations amending the Customs (Land Frontier) Regulations, 1923, hereinafter referred to as the Principal Regulations.

PART I.Motor Vehicles Carrying no Goods except Exempt Farm Produce or Baggage.

1.—(1) This part of these Regulations shall apply to every motor vehicle entering or leaving the Irish Free State upon its own wheels which carries no merchandise other than exempt farm produce or the baggage of persons conveyed in such vehicle.

(2) Part I. of the Principal Regulations shall not apply to any such motor vehicle entering into the Irish Free State.

2.—The person in charge of any such motor vehicle entering the Irish Free State (except such persons as shall produce a Customs pass or a pass book in accordance with the next following regulation)

(a) shall on entering the Irish Free State produce to the Officer at the Frontier Post upon the approved route by which he travels a report in duplicate containing such particulars as the Officer may require. A copy of such report signed by such Officer shall be the pass for the vehicle from the Frontier Post to the Customs Station ;

(b) shall, after a copy of the report signed by the Frontier Post Officer has been returned to him, forthwith drive such vehicle by the approved route to the Customs Station upon such route ;

(c) shall on demand produce such pass for inspection by any Officer ;

(d) shall, during the hours prescribed for keeping open Customs Stations, or at such other time as the Commissioners may on special conditions allow, produce such vehicle for examination by an Officer at the Customs Station upon the approved route on which the vehicle is driven, or, if the Officer shall so direct, at the State Warehouse on such route ; and

(e) shall not drive the vehicle away from the Customs Station or State Warehouse until it has been duly entered and any duty due thereon has been paid or secured to the satisfaction of the Commissioners and the Officer has authorised the person in charge of the vehicle to drive it away.

3.—(1) The person in charge of any motor vehicle to which this Part of these Regulations applies, entering into the Irish Free State, who carries with him a Customs pass showing that no duty is then payable in respect of such vehicle or a pass book may, in lieu of producing a report of such vehicle to the Officer at the Frontier Post, produce to him such pass or passbook, as the case may be, and on production thereof shall be exempt from the requirements of Regulation 2.

(2) Every person in charge of a motor vehicle to which these Regulations apply entering the Irish Free State, who has not complied with the provisions of Regulation 2 in respect thereof, shall on demand by any Officer at any place within twenty miles of the Frontier produce to him a Customs pass or passbook such as is mentioned in this Regulation.

4.—The person in charge of a motor vehicle of any class to which this Part of these Regulations applies, entering the Irish Free State, shall enter the Irish Free State by a route approved for motor vehicles of that class and shall, unless he carries with him a Customs pass such as is mentioned in the last preceding Regulation forthwith proceed with such motor vehicle by that route to the Frontier Post on such route.

5.—Regulations 4 and 5 of the Principal Regulations shall not apply to a motor vehicle of any class to which this Part of these Regulations applies, leaving the Irish Free State, provided that—

(a) the vehicle leaves the Irish Free State by a route approved for motor vehicles of that class ; and

(b) the person in charge of such vehicle produces to the Officer at the Frontier Post on such approved route a Customs pass showing that the vehicle has been allowed by an Officer to enter the Irish Free State without payment of duty or a pass book.

6.—In this Part of these Regulations the expression " a passbook " means a passbook provided in accordance with the Motor Car (Temporary Importation) Regulations, 1916.

PART II.General.

7.—Every person conveying ordinary merchandise of any class into the Irish Free State and every person in charge of a motor vehicle of any class entering on its own wheels into the Irish Free State (not being a motor vehicle to which Part I. of these Regulations applies) shall enter the Irish Free State by a route approved for merchandise or for motor vehicles, as the case may be, of that class and shall forthwith proceed with such ordinary merchandise or motor vehicle, as the case may be, by that route from the Frontier to the Frontier Post upon that route.

8.—Where in respect of any classes or consignments of goods conveyed into or out of the Irish Free State by particular persons or classes of persons, or in respect of any goods or classes of goods so conveyed by a particular route, the Commissioners consent upon special conditions to waive the requirements of Regulations 3, 4 and 5 of the Principal Regulations, every person conveying any such goods into or out of the Irish Free State otherwise than in compliance with the requirements of the said Regulations 3, 4 and 5, shall comply with such special conditions.

9.—(1) The following paragraph is hereby substituted for Paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the Customs (Land Frontier) Regulations, 1923, that is to say :

No person shall import or export any kind of ordinary merchandise including a motor vehicle into or from the Irish Free State except by one of the routes specified in the Schedule to these Regulations and approved for the importation or exportation of merchandise of that kind.

(2) The Schedule to these Regulations is hereby substituted for the First Schedule to the Principal Regulations.

10.—(1) These Regulations shall be construed together with, and as part of, the Principal Regulations, and may be cited as The Customs (Land Frontier) Regulations, 1924.

(2) These Regulations shall come into force on the 17th day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-four.

EARNÁN DE BLAGHD,

Minister for Finance.

Upper Merrion Street,

DUBLIN.

17th June, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

APPROVED ROUTES, FRONTIER POSTS, AND CUSTOMS STATIONS.

PART I.

Routes approved for the Importation and Exportation of Goods of every Description.

Road

Railway

Frontier Post

Customs Station

Newry to Greenore via Carlingford.

Ferryhill

Carlingford.

Line from Newry to Greenore.

Omeath

Greenore Railway Station.

Newry to Dundalk via Killeen.

Carrickarnan

Dundalk.

Armagh to Dundalk via Newtownhamilton.

Drumbilla

Dundalk.

Line from Belfast to Dundalk via Portadown.

Mountpleasant

Dundalk Railway Station.

Armagh to Castleblayney.

Tullynagrow

Castleblayney.

Armagh to Monaghan

Tyholland

Monaghan.

Aughnacloy to Monaghan.

Moy

Monaghan

Line from Armagh to Monaghan.

Glasslough

Monaghan Railway Station.

Enniskillen to Clones

Clones

Clones.

Line from Enniskillen to Clones.

Clones Railway Station.

Clones Railway Station.

Enniskillen to Swanlinbar.

Swanlinbar

Swanlinbar.

Enniskillen to Manorhamilton.

Blacklion

Manorhamilton.

Line from Enniskillen to Manorhamilton.

Glenfarn Railway Station.

Manorhamilton Railway Station.

Enniskillen to Ballyshannon via Belleek.

Cloghore

Ballyshannon.

Line from Kesh to Ballyshannon.

Cloghore.

Pettigo.

Ballyshannon Railway Station.

Strabane to Castlefin

Near Clady Railway Station.

Castlefin.

Line from Strabane to Castlefin.

Clady Railway Station.

Castlefin Railway Station.

Strabane to Lifford

Lifford

Strabane

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Bridge

Lifford.

Line from Strabane to Lifford.

Lifford Railway Station.

Lifford Railway Station.

Derry to St. Johnston

Carrigans

St. Johnston.

Line from Strabane to St. Johnston.

Porthall Railway Station.

St. Johnston Railway Station.

Line from Derry to St. Johnston.

Carrigans Railway Station.

St. Johnston Railway Station.

Derry to Bridge End

Bridge End

Bridge End.

Line from Derry to Buncrana & Letterkenny.

Bridge End

Tooban Junction.

Derry to Muff

Muff

Muff.

PART II.

Route approved for the importation and exportation of—

(a) goods not liable to any duty or to any prohibition or restriction on importation or exportation; and

(b) motor vehicles travelling on their own wheels and either empty or carrying only goods above specified, provided that the person in charge of such a motor vehicle carries with him a Customs pass showing that no duty is payable on such vehicle on entering the Irish Free State.

Road

Frontier Post

Derry to Newtown Cunningham

Kildrum.

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