No. 224/1940:

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 40, FIRST PERIOD) ORDER, 1940.

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 40, FIRST PERIOD) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) 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 whenever the Government makes a quota order, the Government shall, by order made during the preliminary period in respect of such quota order and as soon as may be after the making of such quota order—

(a) appoint a period (beginning on the day appointed by such quota order for the commencement of the first quota period thereunder) to be the first 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 first quota period:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (3) of the said section 6, as so adapted that whenever the Government by order made under the said section 6 appoints a quota, the Government may, if they so think fit, by the same order direct that a specified proportion (in the said Act referred to as a special quota) of the said quota shall consist of goods which are shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners either (as shall be specified in such order)—

(a) to have been manufactured or produced in a specified country, or

(b) to have been consigned to the importer from a specified country, or

(c) to have been manufactured or produced in a specified country and consigned to the importer from that country :

AND WHEREAS on the 25th day of June, 1940, the Government made the Control of Imports (Quota No. 40) Order, 1940, and by the said order appointed the 7th day of August, 1940, to be the day on which the first quota period under the said order should commence :

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by subsections (1) and (3) 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. 40, First Period) Order, 1940.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The period beginning on the 7th day of August, 1940, and ending on the 31st day of October, 1940, is hereby appointed to be the first quota period under the Control of Imports (Quota No. 40) Order, 1940 (which relates to certain woven piece goods of cotton).

4. Ninety thousand square yards of the woven piece goods to which the said Control of Imports (Quota No. 40) Order, 1940, applies shall be the quota in respect of the said first quota period.

5. Of the quota in respect of the said first quota period, eighty-nine thousand square yards shall be woven piece goods which are shown, to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners, to have been manufactured either in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or in the Dominion of Canada.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 16th day of July, 1940.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.