S.I. No. 57/1956:

CONTROL OF EXPORTS ORDER, 1956.

CONTROL OF EXPORTS ORDER, 1956.

I, WILLIAM NORTON, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Control of Exports (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1956 (No. 1 of 1956), hereby order as follows :

1.--(1) This Order may be cited as the Control of Exports Order, 1956.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1956.

2. In this Order " appropriate officer " means, in the case of articles being exported by parcel post, an officer of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and, in any other case, the proper officer of Customs and Excise.

3.--(1) The exportation of any articles specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order is hereby prohibited save under and in accordance with a licence.

(2) The exportation of any articles specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, not being articles specified in Part III of that Schedule, otherwise than to Northern Ireland or Great Britain, is hereby prohibited save under and in accordance with a licence.

4. This Order shall not apply to the exportation of articles as respects which the appropriate officer is satisfied that such articles--

(a) are being exported for repair and return,

(b) are travellers' samples being exported after being imported temporarily,

(c) are travellers' samples being exported temporarily to be subsequently re-imported,

(d) are being re-exported to the country from which they were imported as a result of being refused by the consignees, or

(e) are used containers of any material or description which are being re-exported empty to the sender.

5. Where any articles specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, not being articles specified in Part III of that Schedule, are entered for export to Northern Ireland or Great Britain, no person shall deliver, or cause, procure or facilitate in any manner the delivery of, such articles at any destination other than a destination in Northern Ireland or Great Britain, as the case may be.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

ARTICLES THE EXPORT OF WHICH IS CONTROLLED TO ALL PLACES.

Aluminium scrap.

Cement.

Iron and steel scrap.

Leather.

Machinery as follows :

Crawler tractors, excavators, drainage ploughs.

Waste paper.

PART II.

ARTICLES THE EXPORT OF WHICH IS CONTROLLED TO PLACES OTHER THAN NORTHERN IRELAND AND GREAT BRITAIN.

Arms, ammunition and military and naval stores.

Chemicals and petroleum products.

Diamonds for industrial use.

Electrical goods and apparatus and parts thereof.

Glassware, scientific.

Graphite, artificial.

Iron and steel and manufactures thereof.

Machinery and parts.

Non-ferrous ores, metals and manufactures thereof.

Nylon parachute cloth.

Paper or synthetic film for dielectric use (condenser tissue).

Refractory materials and products.

Rubber, synthetic and rubber manufactures as follows :

tyre casings, high-pressure rotary drilling hose, meteorological balloons and water lubricated bearings.

Scientific instruments and apparatus including high speed cinematograph cameras.

Tools (including dies and slugs) incorporating diamonds.

Vehicles (including locomotives, ships, tractors and aircraft and parts thereof).

PART III.

ARTICLES EXCEPTED FROM LIST OF ARTICLES SET OUT IN PART II.

Antiques.

Appliances, apparatus, accessories and requisites (including gaming machines) for sports, games, gymnastics or athletics.

Appliances, equipment, utensils (including cooking, heating, washing and cleaning apparatus) suitable only for domestic use.

Beads.

Belldomes and gongs.

Binoculars.

Book-ends.

Brooms and brushes.

Buttons.

Church furniture and church requisites.

Cigar and cigarette cases and boxes and articles of which such cases or boxes form part.

Cigar and cigarette holders.

Clocks and watches.

Combs.

Chemicals as follows :

cosmetics, detergents, disinfectants, fungicides, glycerine (crude), gypsum, hair lotion, insecticides, ochre, perfumery, rat poisons, sheep dips, weed-killers, dyes and colours, menthol.

Electrical glass bulbs.

Fancy blotters.

Flapjacks.

Fountain pens and pencils.

Guns, sporting.

Haberdashery.

Hotel ware made from imported stampings.

Inkstands.

Iron and steel manufactures as follows :

rounds, squares, flats and angles, structural steelwork, metal windows, fencing and fencing posts, hand implements, pedal cycles, children's carriages and accessories therefor.

Jewellery and jewellery boxes.

Lanterns.

Lipstick containers.

Machinery and parts as follows :

agricultural, dairying and horicultural machinery, concrete block making machines, and office machines.

Manicure sets.

Manufactures of silver, electro-plate and nickel silver.

Mechanical lighters.

Medicines and medicinal preparations.

Musical instruments and accessories therefor.

Nail cleaners, clippers, files and polishers.

Pipes for smoking tobacco and parts thereof.

Photograph and picture frames.

Powder bowls, boxes, puffs.

Radio receiving sets (domestic), radiograms and accessories therefor.

Road motor vehicles as follows :

motor cars (including taxis), motor cycles, motor trucks, vans, lorries and station wagons.

Religious medals.

Smokers' ash receptacles.

Souvenirs.

Spectacles and parts.

Spring interior mattresses and bases therefor.

Toys.

Vacuum flasks.

Wire and tape recorders.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of March, 1956.

WILLIAM NORTON.