No. 364/1934:

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 59) ORDER, 1934.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 59) 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. 59) 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. The duty of customs imposed by section 24 of the Finance Act, 1932 (No. 20 of 1932), shall, in respect of all articles to which paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of that section applies imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 5th day of December, 1934, be charged, levied, and paid at the rate of one shilling the pound in lieu of the rate mentioned in the said section.

4. Subsection (3) of the said section 24 of the Finance Act, 1932 , shall not apply or have effect in relation to the said duty imposed by that section when chargeable at the rate of one shilling the pound in pursuance of the next preceding paragraph of this Order.

DUBLIN.

This 4th day of December, 1934.