S.I. No. 153/1961 - Imposition of Duties (No. 113) (Brassieres) Order, 1961.

1. This Order may be cited as the Imposition of Duties (No. 113) (Brassieres) Order, 1961.

2. The duty of customs imposed by the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 267) (Personal Clothing and Wearing Apparel) Order, 1951 (

S.I. No. 357 of 1951

), shall, as respects articles imported on or after the 1st day of August, 1961, be varied, in so far as that duty is chargeable on articles of underwear which are brassieres, by the substitution of "Whichever of the following rates produces in respect of each particular article the greater amount of duty, that is to say: 75% or 5/- the article" for "75%" in the third column of Part I of the Schedule to that Order at reference number 10.

3. Whenever the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, so thinks proper, the Revenue Commissioners may by licence authorise any particular person, subject to compliance with such conditions as they may think fit to impose, to import articles of underwear which are brassieres, on payment of the duty mentioned in paragraph 2 of this Order at a rate equivalent to the rate at which that duty was chargeable thereon immediately before the 1st day of 'August, 1961.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 25th day of July, 1961.

SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to impose a minimum duty of 5/. (full), 3s. 4d. (preferential—U.K. and Canada), the article, on brassieres.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by

section 1

of the

Imposition of Duties Act, 1957

(No. 7 of 1957), hereby order as follows