S.I. No. 66/1955:

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 347) (SILK AND ARTIFICIAL SILK) ORDER, 1955.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 347) (SILK AND ARTIFICIAL SILK) ORDER, 1955.

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, hereby order as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 347) (Silk and Artificial Silk) Order, 1955.

2. This Order shall have effect as respects articles imported on or after the 29th day of April, 1955.

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

4. The duty imposed by subsection (2) of section 3 of the Finance (Agreement with United Kingdom) Act, 1938 (No. 12 of 1938), as amended by the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 223) Order, 1941 ( S. R. & O. No. 464 of 1941 ), shall be charged, levied and paid at the rate of one shilling and two pence the square yard in lieu of the rate mentioned in the said subsection.

5. The following statutory provisions shall apply and have effect in the manner hereinafter mentioned, that is to say :

(a) the provisions of section 6 of the Finance (Agreement with United Kingdom) Act, 1938 , shall apply and have effect in relation to the duty mentioned in paragraph 4 of this Order as if the articles chargeable with that duty were mentioned in the second column of the First Schedule to the said Act, and subsection (2) of section 3 of the said Act and this Order were mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of the said articles in the said second column, and the rate of sixpence per square yard were specified in the fourth column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of the said articles in the said second column ;

(b) the provisions of section 16 of the said Act and the regulations made under that section shall apply and have effect for the purpose of the said section 6 as applied by this paragraph.

6. In subsection (3) of section 3 of the Finance (Agreement with United Kingdom) Act, 1938 , " the duty imposed by subsection (1) of this section " shall be substituted for " both the duties imposed by this section " and also for " either of the said duties imposed by this section."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 22nd day of April, 1955.

JOHN A. COSTELLO,

Taoiseach.