No. 56/1937:

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 33) ORDER, 1937.

CONTROL OF IMPORTS (QUOTA No. 33) ORDER, 1937.

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 for all purposes as the Control of Imports (Quota No. 33) Order, 1937.

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 24th day of March, 1937, of any of the articles mentioned in Part I of the Schedule hereto is hereby prohibited, but such prohibition shall not extend or apply to any of the articles mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule.

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 Section 4 of the Control of Imports (Amendment) Act, 1937 (No. 8 of 1937), from applying.

6. For the purposes of this Order, the value of any article shall be taken to be the price which, in the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners, an importer would give for such article if such article were delivered, freight and insurance paid, in bond at the place of importation.

7. The 1st day of May, 1937, is hereby appointed to be the day on which the first quota period under this Order shall commence.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Articles the importation of which is prohibited by this Order.

All woven tissues (other than floor coverings) in the piece which—

(a) are made wholly or partly of wool or worsted, and

(b) are not less than twelve inches in width, and

(c) are not less than seven ounces in weight per square yard and

(d) are more than one shilling and three pence in value per square yard, but not more than two shillings in value per square yard.

PART II.

Articles excepted from the prohibition of importation effected by this Order.

Woven tissue in respect of which it is shown to the satisfaction of the Revenue Commissioners that such woven tissue either—

(a) had been subjected, before importation, to a process of proofing by being backed or coated with a rubber or similar solution, or

(b) at importation forms part of a composite cloth which, or any part of which, had been subjected, before importation, to a process of proofing.

DUBLIN.

This 23rd day of March, 1937.