No. 51/1932:

CUSTOMS DUTIES (MEAT AND POULTRY) (PROVISIONAL IMPOSITION) ORDER, 1932.

CUSTOMS DUTIES (MEAT AND POULTRY) (PROVISIONAL IMPOSITION) ORDER, 1932.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931 (No. 38 of 1931), that whenever the Executive Council is satisfied, on the report of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, that the immediate imposition of a customs duty on any particular description of goods is necessary to prevent an expected dumping of goods of that description arising out of financial or other events in other countries and occurring in circumstances which would occasion industrial injury, the Executive Council may by order impose, whether with or without qualifications, restrictions, or exemptions, a customs duty of such amount as they think proper to specify in such order on all goods of the said particular description imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after a day (not being prior to the day on which such order is made) specified in such order:

AND WHEREAS the Executive Council is satisfied, on the report of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, that the immediate imposition of a customs duty on the goods mentioned in the Schedule hereto is necessary to prevent an expected dumping of those goods arising out of financial or other events in other countries, and occurring in circumstances which would occasion industrial injury:

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Customs Duties (Provisional Imposition) Act, 1931 (No. 38 of 1931), 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 Customs Duties (Meat and Poultry) (Provisional Imposition) Order, 1932.

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. Subject to the provisions of this Order, there shall be charged, levied, and paid on all goods mentioned in the Schedule hereto imported into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 7th day of June, 1932, a customs duty at the rate of sixpence the pound.

4. The provisions of section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919, shall apply to the duty imposed by this Order with the substitution of the expression "Saorstát Eireann" for the expression "Great Britain and Ireland," and as though the goods mentioned in the Schedule hereto were included in the Second Schedule to that Act in the list of goods to which two-thirds of the full rate is made applicable as a preferential rate.

DUBLIN.

This 6th day of June, 1932.

SCHEDULE.

1. The following meats, whether cooked or uncooked, that is to say, beef, veal, mutton, and lamb, but excluding any of such meats imported in sealed containers, and also excluding extracts, essences, and similar preparations of any such meats.

2. Dead poultry and wild birds (whether cooked or uncooked) intended for use as food, but excluding any such poultry or birds imported in sealed containers and also excluding extracts, essences, and similar preparations of any such poultry or birds.