No. 330/1934:

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 53) ORDER, 1934.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 53) ORDER, 1934.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), that the Executive Council may by order do all or any of certain things mentioned in that section and amongst others, vary, in any manner or respect whatsoever, in regard to goods imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after a specified day any customs duty in force at the passing of that Act or imposed by any Act passed or Order made after the passing of that Act or any qualification, limitation, drawback, allowance, exemption, or preferential rate in force at the date of such Order in relation to such 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. 16 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. 53) Order, 1934.

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. Section 4 of the Finance Act 1933 (No. 15 of 1933), and the First Schedule to that Act shall, in respect of articles imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 10th day of November, 1934, have effect as if, in paragraph (e) in the second column at reference number 14 in Part I of the said First Schedule, the words "two and three-eighths inches" were deleted and the words "three and one-half inches" were inserted in lieu of the said words so deleted.

4. The provisions of section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919, shall, as respects articles imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 10th day of November, 1934, not apply to the duty imposed by section 4 of the Finance Act, 1933 (No. 15 of 1933), and mentioned at reference number 14 in the First Schedule to that Act, whether such duty is chargeable at the rate mentioned in the third column at the said reference number or at a rate mentioned in section 5 of the Finance (Customs and Excise Duties) Act, 1933 (No. 52 of 1933).

DUBLIN.

This 9th day of November, 1934.