S.I. No. 88/1931 - Customs Duties (Bacon) (Provisional Imposition) Order, 1931.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1931. No. 88.

CUSTOMS DUTIES (BACON) (PROVISIONAL IMPOSITION) ORDER, 1931.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931 (No. 38 of 1931), that whenever the Executive Council is satisfied, on the report of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, that the immediate imposition of a customs duty on any particular description of goods is necessary to prevent an expected dumping of goods of that description arising out of financial or other events in other countries and occurring in circumstances which would occasion industrial injury, the Executive Council may by order impose, whether with or without qualifications, restrictions, or exemptions, a customs duty of such amount as they think proper to specify in such order on all goods of the said particular description imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after a day (not being prior to the day on which such order is made) specified in such order and (if the Executive Council thinks fit so to specify) on all goods of the said particular description landed in Saorstát Eireann on or after the said day:

AND WHEREAS the Executive Council is satisfied, on the report of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, that the immediate imposition of a customs duty on bacon is necessary to prevent an expected dumping of bacon arising out of financial or other events in other countries and occurring in circumstances which would occasion industrial injury:

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931 (No. 38 of 1931), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Customs Duties (Bacon) (Provisional Imposition) Order, 1931.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In this Order the word " bacon " includes the whole or any part of a pig's carcase which has been cured or partially cured or has been chilled or frozen, but does not include the head, feet, or offals of a pig.

4.—(1) The Minister for Agriculture may from time to time make a certificate (in this Order referred to as a price certificate) certifying in relation to any country the average price (exclusive of any import duty for the time being payable thereon) in the London and Liverpool markets during such period previous to the making of such certificate as the said Minister shall select, of bacon of first grade the produce of such country and whenever any such certificate is made in relation to any country then the price so certified in relation to such country in such certificate shall, in respect of the period during which such certificate is in force, and notwithstanding the making of a new price certificate in relation to such country be for the purposes of this Order and the Schedule hereto the certified price of bacon the produce of such country.

(2) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to every price certificate, that is to say—

(a) the first such price certificate shall come into force on the date on which it is made,

(b) every subsequent price certificate shall come into force on the fourth day following the making thereof,

(c) every price certificate shall continue in force until a new price certificate comes into force,

(d) a price certificate may relate to any one or more countries.

(3) The prices required for the purposes of a price certificate shall be ascertained by the Minister for Agriculture by reference to such information as may be available to him and as in his opinion fairly represents the said prices.

5. Subject to the provisions of this Order, there shall be charged, levied, and paid on all bacon imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 31st day of December, 1931, and on all bacon imported into Saorstát Eireann before the 31st day of December, 1931, and landed in Saorstát Eireann on or after that date the following customs duties, that is to say—

(a) where at the time of the importation or the importation and landing of bacon the produce of a particular country there is a certified price for bacon the produce of such country, the customs duty on all bacon the produce of such country so imported or so imported and landed shall be at the rates specified in the Schedule to this Order,

(b) where at time of the importation or the importation and landing of bacon the produce of a particular country there is no certified price for bacon the produce of such country, the customs duty on all bacon the produce of such country so imported or so imported and landed shall be at the rate of fifty shillings per hundred-weight.

6. The duties imposed by this Order shall not be charged or levied on any bacon which is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners to have been consigned from a country within the British Commonwealth of Nations and produced entirely in a country or countries within the British Commonwealth of Nations.

Dublin.

This 30th day of December, 1931.

SCHEDULE.