No. 344/1940:

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 27, EIGHTH PERIOD) ORDER, 1940.

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 27, EIGHTH 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 by the Control of Imports (Quota No. 27, Seventh Period) Order, 1939 ( S. R. & O. No. 369 of 1939 ), the period beginning on the 1st day of January, 1940, and ending on the 31st day of December, 1940, was appointed to be the seventh quota period under the Control of Imports (Quota No. 27) Order, 1936 ( S. R. & O. No. 15 of 1936 ) :

AND WHEREAS by the Control of Imports (Quota No. 27) (Amendment) Order, 1936 ( S. R. & O. No. 179 of 1936 ), the said Control of Imports (Quota No. 27) Order, 1936, was amended so as to exclude any article which is a single feather quill containing hair or fibre :

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them 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, 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. 27, Eighth 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 January, 1941, and ending on the 31st day of December, 1941, is hereby appointed to be the eighth quota period under the Control of Imports (Quota No. 27) Order, 1936 (which relates to brushes for use on human skin, hair, nails, teeth or mouth).

4. Ninety-two thousand articles to which the said Control of Imports (Quota No. 27) Order, 1936, applies shall be the quota in respect of the said eighth quota period.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 26th day of November, 1940.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA;

Taoiseach.