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S.I. No. 267/1938 - Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 160) Order, 1938.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1938. No. 267.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 160) ORDER, 1938.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, that the Government may, if and whenever they think proper, do by order all or any of certain things and among others vary in any manner or respect whatsoever, in regard to goods imported into Ireland on or after a specified day, any customs duty in force at the passing of the said Act or imposed by any Act passed or order made after the passing of the said Act or any qualification, limitation, drawback, allowance, exemption, or preferential rate in force at the date of such order in relation to any such duty :

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 160) Order, 1938.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. Whenever the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, so thinks proper, the Revenue Commissioners may by licence authorize any particular person, subject to compliance with such conditions as they may think fit to impose, to import without payment of the duty imposed by section 8 of the Finance Act, 1926 (No. 35 of 1926), as amended by subsequent enactments (being a duty on certain wireless telegraphy apparatus) any articles chargeable with that duty and imported on or after the 8th day of October, 1938, either, as the Revenue Commissioners shall think proper, without limit as to time or quantity or either of them or within a specified time or in a specified quantity, but so that no such licence shall be exempt from the provisions of section 15 of the Finance (Agreement with United Kingdom) Act, 1938 (No. 12 of 1938).

DUBLIN.

This 4th day of October, 1938.