No. 27/1935:

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 63) ORDER, 1935.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 63) ORDER, 1935.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), that the Executive Council may, if and whenever they think proper, by order impose, whether with or without qualifications, limitations, drawbacks, allowances, exemptions, or preferential rates, a customs duty of such amount as they think proper on any particular description or descriptions of goods imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after a specified day and, where such goods are chargeable with any other customs duty, so impose such first-mentioned duty either in addition to or in substitution for such other duty :

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 46 of 1932), 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 Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 63) Order, 1935.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 16 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. A duty of customs at the rate of an amount equal to thirty-three and one-third per cent. of the value of the article shall be charged, levied, and paid on every article of any of the following descriptions made wholly or mainly of iron or steel or a combination of iron and steel and imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 6th day of February, 1935, that is to say:—

(a) hooks, brackets, bands, and similar fittings for supporting or securing in position gutters, rain pipes, smoke pipes, ventilation pipes, and other similar pipes ;

(b) holdfasts and wall hooks of a length of not less than four inches ;

(c) scythe mountings ;

(d) hook and eye hinges, imported complete, of which the eye part is of a length of not less than twelve inches ;

(e) eye parts of hook and eye hinges where such eye parts are imported separately and are of a length of not less than twelve inches ;

(f) hook parts of hook and eye hinges, where such hook parts are imported separately and are of a length of not less than one inch.

4. The duty imposed by this Order is hereby placed under the care and management of the Revenue Commissioners.

DUBLIN.

This 5th day of February, 1935.