No. 9/1939:

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 168) ORDER, 1939.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 168) ORDER, 1939.

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. 168) Order, 1939.

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

3. The following provisions shall, as respects articles imported on or after the 11th day of January, 1939, have effect in relation to the duty of customs imposed by section 5 of the Finance Act, 1937 (No. 18 of 1937), and mentioned at reference number 27 in the First Schedule to that Act (being a duty on certain glazed pipes and glazed connections), that is to say :—

(a) the said duty shall be charged, levied, and paid at the rate of four shillings the hundredweight in lieu of the rate mentioned at the said reference number 27, and

(b) the provisions of section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919, shall apply to the said duty with the substitution of the expression " the area of application of the Acts of the Oireachtas " for the expression " Great Britain and Ireland " and as though the Second Schedule to that Act contained a list of goods to which the rate of one shilling and sixpence the hundredweight was made applicable as a preferential rate and the articles chargeable with the said duty were included in that list.

DUBLIN.

This 10th day of January, 1939.