S.I. No. 202/1962 - Imposition of Duties (No. 129) (Wheat) Order, 1962.

1. This Order may be cited as the Imposition of Duties (No. 129) (Wheat) Order, 1962.

2. A duty of customs at the rate of three pounds and ten shillings per ton shall be charged, levied and paid on wheat imported on or after the 6th day of December, 1962.

3. Whenever the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, 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 without payment of the duty imposed by this Order, any wheat chargeable with such duty or, in the case of any such wheat already imported, to take delivery thereof without payment of such duty either, as the Revenue Commissioners shall think proper, without limit as to time or quantity or either of them, or within a specified time or in a specified quantity, but so that no such licence shall be exempt from the provisions of

section 15

of the

Finance (Agreement with United Kingdom) Act, 1938

(No. 12 of 1938).

4. The duty imposed by this Order is hereby placed under the care and management of the Revenue Commissioners.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 4th day of December, 1962.

SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Order imposes a customs duty of £3 10s. 0d. per ton on wheat imported on or after 6th December, 1962, and makes provision for the grant of duty free licences.

S.I. No. 202 of 1962.

IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 129) (WHEAT) ORDER, 1962.

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