S.I. No. 156/1933 - Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 20) Order, 1933.

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 20) Order, 1933.

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 1

of the

Finance (Customs Duties) (No. 4) Act, 1932

(No. 34 of 1932), and the First Schedule to that Act shall have effect in regard to articles imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 2nd day of December, 1933, as if, at reference number 14 in that Schedule, there were added at the end of paragraph (b) in the second column an additional sub-paragraph as follows, that is to say:—

"(12) couplings, joints, and other similar fittings which, in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners, are designed, constructed, and intended for use in connection with tubes or pipes and bear any external screw-threading and are of an external diameter, at any such screw-threading, not exceeding one and one-half inches."

4. Notwithstanding anything contained in the said

Finance (Customs Duties) (No. 4) Act, 1932

, the duty mentioned in paragraph (

c

) in the second column at reference number 14 in the First Schedule to that Act shall not be chargeable in respect of component parts or assemblies of articles which are by virtue of this Order, chargeable with the duty mentioned in paragraph (

b

) in the said second column.

DUBLIN.

This 1st day of December, 1933.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1933. No. 156.

EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 20) ORDER, 1933.

WHEREAS it is enacted by

section 1

of the

Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932

(No. 16 of 1932), that the Executive Council may, if and whenever they think proper, do by order 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 any 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:—