No. 16/1935:

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 12) ORDER, 1935.

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 12) ORDER, 1935.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 3 of the Control of Imports Act, 1934 (No. 12 of 1934), that the Executive Council may at any time by order (in that Act called a quota order) prohibit, subject to the provisions of the said Act, the importation into Saorstát Eireann on or after a specified day (in that Act referred to as the commencement of such order) not prior to the date of such order of any particular description or descriptions of goods and that the Executive Council shall, in and by every quota order, appoint the day (not more than six weeks after the commencement of such Order) on which the first quota period under such quota order shall commence :

NOW, the Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 3 of the Control of Imports Act, 1934 (No. 12 of 1934), 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. 12) Order, 1935.

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. In this Order the expression " the Act " means the Control of Imports Act, 1934 (No. 12 of 1934).

4. Subject to the exceptions and qualifications mentioned in the next following paragraph of this Order, the importation into Saorstát Eireann on or after the 16th day of January, 1935, of hose and half-hose which, in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners, are made wholly or mainly of silk, artificial silk or a combination of silk and artificial silk is hereby prohibited, but such prohibition shall not extend to hose and half-hose made wholly or mainly of silk, artificial silk, or a combination of silk and artificial silk which, in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners, are of a surgical character.

5. The prohibition effected by the next preceding paragraph of this Order shall not extend or apply to—

(a) any article which is imported under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued under the Act, or

(b) any article to which this Order is precluded by subsection (4) of Section 3 of the Act from applying.

6. The 25th day of February, 1935, is hereby appointed to be the day on which the first quota period under this Order shall commence.

DUBLIN :

This 15th day of January, 1935.