No. 28/1932:

CUSTOMS DUTIES (MILK AND CREAM) (PROVISIONAL IMPOSITION) ORDER, 1932.

CUSTOMS DUTIES (MILK AND CREAM) (PROVISIONAL IMPOSITION) ORDER, 1932.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931 (No. 38 of 1931), that whenever the Executive Council is satisfied, on the report of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, that the immediate imposition of a customs duty on any particular description of goods is necessary to prevent an expected dumping of goods of that description arising out of financial or other events in other countries and occurring in circumstances which would occasion industrial injury, the Executive Council may by order impose, whether with or without qualifications, restrictions, or exemptions, a customs duty of such amount as they think proper to specify in such order on all goods of the said particular description imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after a day (not being prior to the day on which such order is made) specified in such order:

AND WHEREAS the Executive Council is satisfied, on the report of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, that the immediate imposition of a customs duty on the articles mentioned in the Schedule hereto is necessary to prevent an expected dumping of those articles arising out of financial or other events in other countries and occurring in circumstances which would occasion industrial injury:

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931 (No. 38 of 1931), 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 Customs Duties (Milk and Cream) (Provisional Imposition) Order, 1932.

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. Subject to the provisions of this Order, there shall be charged, levied, and paid on all goods mentioned in the Schedule hereto imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 23rd day of April, 1932, a customs duty at the several rates mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

4. The provisions of section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919, shall apply to the duty imposed by this Order with the substitution of the expression "Saorstat Eireann" for the expression "Great Britain and Ireland" and as though the goods mentioned in the Schedule hereto were included in the Second Schedule to that Act in the list of goods to which two-thirds of the full rate is made applicable as a preferential rate.

5. Whenever the Minister for Agriculture is satisfied that goods liable to the duty imposed by this Order are required to be imported into Saorstát Eireann by the proprietor of a separating station in Saorstát Eireann or of a creamery in Saorstát Eireann for use in the processes carried on in and forming the business or part of the business of such separating station or creamery, the said Minister may issue to such proprietor a licence to import, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the said Minister shall think fit to specify in such licence, goods or any particular class or classes of goods liable to the duty imposed by this Order, either without limit as to time or quantity or with such limitations as to time and quantity or either of them as the said Minister shall think fit to specify in such licence.

6. The Revenue Commissioners may, subject to such conditions as they shall think fit to prescribe, admit without payment of duty all goods imported under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Minister for Agriculture under the next preceding paragraph of this Order.

7. If any person does any act (whether of commission or omission) which is a contravention of a condition prescribed by the Revenue Commissioners under the next preceding paragraph of this Order, he shall be guilty of an offence under the Customs Acts and shall for each offence incur a penalty of fifty pounds and all goods liable to the duty imposed by this Order in respect of which such act was done shall be forfeited.

Dublin.

This 22nd day of April, 1932.

SCHEDULE.

Rates of Duty.

1. Threepence the gallon on whole milk imported in bulk.

2. Four shillings and sixpence the gallon on cream imported in bulk.

3. Sixty shillings the hundredweight on cream imported in sealed tins and on condensed unsweetened full cream milk imported in sealed tins.