S.I. No. 287/1934 - Control of Imports (Quota No. 8) Order, 1934.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1934. No. 287.

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 8) ORDER, 1934.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 3 of the Control of Imports Act, 1934 (No. 12 of 1934), that the Executive Council may at any time by order (in that Act called a quota order) prohibit, subject to the provisions of the said Act, the importation into Saorstát Eireann on or after a specified day (in that Act referred to as the commencement of such order) not prior to the date of such order of any particular description or descriptions of goods, and that the Executive Council shall, in and by every quota order, appoint the day (not more than six weeks after the commencement of such order) on which the first quota period under such quota order shall commence :

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 3 of the Control of Imports Act, 1934 (No. 12 of 1934), 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 Control of Imports (Quota No. 8) Order, 1934.

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. (1) In this Order—

the expression " the Act " means the Control of Imports Act, 1934 (No. 12 of 1934),

the expression " motor car " means a mechanically propelled vehicle which derives its motive power from an internal combustion engine or from an electric motor or from a combination of such engine and such motor, but does not include a bicycle or a tricycle, nor a vehicle which is, in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners, designed and constructed solely or primarily for the traction of vehicles or other articles or for propulsion along rail tracks, nor any vehicle which is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners to be intended for propulsion along rail tracks,

the word " body " (whether used alone or in the expression " body shell ") means a motor car body which is, in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners primarily designed and constructed for the carriage only of a number of persons (with or without personal luggage) not exceeding six, exclusive of the driver.

(2) For the purposes of this Order, a motor car body shell which has, before importation, been subjected to any one or more of the processes of painting, upholstering, and fitting with glass shall be deemed to be a motor car body.

4. Subject to the exceptions and qualifications contained in the next following paragraph of this Order, the importation into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 20th day of October, 1934, of any motor car chassis with body or body shell attached thereto in respect of which the Revenue Commissioners are of opinion that either such chassis or the body or body shell attached thereto is or both such chassis and such body or body shell are completely or substantially assembled is hereby prohibited.

5. The prohibition effected by the next preceding paragraph of this Order shall not extend or apply to any article which—

(a) is imported under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued under the Act, or

(b) is an article to which this Order is precluded by sub-section (4) of section 3 of the Act from applying.

6. The 26th day of November, 1934, is hereby appointed to be the day on which the first quota period under this Order shall commence.

DUBLIN.

This 19th day of October, 1934.