Tariff Commission Act, 1926
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Functions of Tariff Commission. |
2.—(1) Whenever an application is made to the Minister for Finance by any persons substantially representative of the persons engaged or proposing to engage in the production in Saorstát Eireann of goods of any particular class or description for the imposition, modification, abolition, or renewal of a customs duty on the importation of goods of that class or description, the said Minister may if he so thinks fit refer such application to the Commission. | |
(2) The Commission shall consider every application referred to it under this section by the Minister for Finance and shall report to the said Minister on the several aspects specified in the Schedule to this Act of such application or such of those aspects as are applicable thereto. | ||
(3) When considering any application referred to it as aforesaid the Commission shall hear every person who desires so to be heard and appears to the Commission to be substantially representative of persons, trades, or interests who would or might reasonably be expected to be affected by the granting or refusing, in whole or in part, of the concessions asked for in such application and shall receive and consider any evidence tendered by any such person. |