S.I. No. 115/1940 - Control of Imports (Quota No. 13, Fourteenth Period) Order, 1940.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1940. No. 115.

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 13, FOURTEENTH PERIOD) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (2) of section 6 of the Control of Imports Act, 1934 (No. 12 of 1934), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, that so long as any particular quota order is in force the Government shall, during and not less than one month before the end of every quota period under such quota order, by order—

(a) appoint a period (beginning at the expiration of the said quota period) to be the next quota period under such quota order, and

(b) appoint a specified quantity of goods to which such quota order applies to be the quota for the purposes of the said Act in respect of the said next quota period :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (3) of the said section 6, as so adapted, that whenever the Government by order made under the said section 6 appoints a quota, the Government may, if they so think fit, by the same order direct that a specified proportion (in the said Act referred to as a special quota) of the said quota shall consist of goods which are shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners either (as shall be specified in such order)—

(a) to have been manufactured or produced in a specified country, or

(b) to have been consigned to the importer from a country, or

(c) to have been manufactured or produced in a specified country and consigned to the importer from that country :

AND WHEREAS by the Control of Imports (Quota No. 13, Thirteenth Period) Order, 1939 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 399 of 1939), the period beginning on the 1st day of February, 1940, and ending on the 30th day of April, 1940, was appointed to be the thirteenth quota period under the Control of Imports (Quota No. 13) Order, 1935 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 59 of 1935) :

AND WHEREAS by the Control of Imports (Quota No. 13) (Amendment) Order, 1937, and the Control of Imports (Quota No. 13) (Amendment) Order, 1940, the said Control of Imports (Quota No. 13) Order, 1935, was amended in certain respects :

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by subsections (2) and (3) of section 6 of the Control of Imports Act, 1934 (No. 12 of 1934), 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 Control of Imports (Quota No. 13, Fourteenth Period) Order, 1940.

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

3. The period beginning on the 1st day of May, 1940, and ending on the 31st day of October, 1940, is hereby appointed to be the fourteenth quota period under the Control of Imports (Quota No. 13) Order, 1935 (which relates to certain woven tissues of wool or worsted).

4. Eight hundred and twenty thousand square yards of woven tissues to which the Control of Imports (Quota No. 13) Order, 1935, applies, shall be the quota in respect of the said fourteenth quota period.

5. Of the quota in respect of the said fourteenth quota period, eight hundred and ten thousand square yards shall be woven tissues to which the Control of Imports (Quota No. 13) Order, 1935, applies, and which are shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners to have been manufactured either in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or in the Dominion of Canada.

Dublin.

This 28th day of March, 1940.