S.I. No. 33/1966:

CONTROL OF EXPORTS ORDER, 1966.

CONTROL OF EXPORTS ORDER, 1966.

I, P. Ó hIRIGHILE, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Control of Exports (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1956 (No. 1 of 1956) which Act is continued in force by the Control of Exports (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1956 (Continuance) Act, 1965 (No. 3 of 1965), and after consultation in relation to Articles 4, 5 and 7 of this Order with the Minister for External Affairs, hereby order as follows :

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Control of Exports Order, 1966.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1966.

2. In this Order " appropriate officer " means, in the case of articles being exported by parcel post, an officer of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, and, in any other case, the proper officer of Customs and Excise.

3. The exportation of any articles specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, not being articles specified in Part III of that Schedule, is hereby prohibited save under and in accordance with a licence.

4. The exportation of any articles specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, not being articles specified in Part III of that Schedule, otherwise than to Northern Ireland or Great Britain, is hereby prohibited save under and in accordance with a licence.

5. The exportation to Northern Ireland or Great Britain of yarn, woven fabrics and articles made of woven fabrics which--

(a) contain not less than fifty per cent. by weight of cotton, and

(b) are of a kind mentioned in the first column of the Schedule to the Imposition of Duties (No. 128) (Customs Duties and Form of Customs Tariff) Order, 1962 ( S.I. No. 163 of 1962 ), at tariff heading number 52.01, 52.02, 55.05, 55.06, 55.07, 55.08, 55.09, 58.04, 58.10, 59.07, 59.08, 59.09, 59.11, 59.12, 59.13, 59.14, 59.15, 59.16, 59.17, 61.01, 61.02, 61.03, 61.04, 61.05, 61.06, 61.07, 61.08, 61.09, 61.10, 61.11, 62.01, 62.02, 62.04 or 62.05,

is hereby prohibited, save under and in accordance with a licence.

6. This Order shall not apply to the exportation of articles as respects which the appropriate officer is satisfied that such articles--

(a) are being exported for repair and return,

(b) are travellers' samples being exported after being imported temporarily,

(c) are travellers' samples being exported temporarily to be subsequently re-imported,

(d) are being re-exported to the country from which they were imported as a result of being refused by the consignees,

(e) are used containers of any material or description which are being re-exported empty to the sender or

(f) are consigned from outside the State to the airport (which expression has in this paragraph the same meaning as in the Customs-Free Airport Acts, 1947 and 1958) and are being exported from a part of the State other than the airport to the airport after importation from outside the State or are consigned from the airport to a destination outside the State and are being exported from a part of the State other than the airport after importation from the airport.

7. Where any articles specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, not being articles specified in Part III of that Schedule, are entered for export to Northern Ireland or Great Britain, no person shall deliver, or cause, procure or facilitate in any manner the delivery of such articles at any destination other than a destination in Northern Ireland or Great Britain, as the case may be.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Articles the export of which is controlled to all places.

Aluminium scrap.

Articles manufactured for use as fertilisers of the soil.

Cement.

Copper base alloy scrap.

Fabricated steel sections whether assembled or unassembled.

Iron and steel scrap.

Lead and manufactures thereof, lead alloys and manufactures thereof, lead scrap, lead bearing scrap, lead dross, lead residues and lead ashes.

Railway rails and accessories.

Railway rolling stock (including locomotives) and parts thereof.

Watches.

Zinc scrap and zinc base alloy scrap.

PART II.

Articles the export of which is controlled to places other than Northern Ireland and Great Britain.

Aircraft and parts thereof.

Arms, ammunition and military and naval stores.

Chemicals and petroleum products.

Diamonds for industrial use.

Electrical goods and apparatus and parts thereof.

Glassware, scientific.

Graphite, artificial.

Iron and steel and manufactures thereof.

Machinery and parts.

Non-ferrous ores, metals and manufactures thereof.

Synthetic film for dielectric use (condenser tissue).

Refractory materials and products.

Rubber, synthetic and rubber manufactures as follows : high-pressure rotary drilling hose.

Scientific instruments and apparatus including high speed cameras.

Ships and parts thereof.

Tools (including dies and slugs) incorporating diamonds.

Vehicles (including tractors) and parts thereof.

PART III.

Articles excepted from lists of articles set out in Part I and Part II.

Antiques.

Appliances, apparatus, accessories and requisites (including gaming machines) for sports, games, gymnastics or athletics.

Appliances, equipment, utensils (including cooking, heating, washing and cleaning apparatus) suitable only for domestic use.

Beads.

Belldomes and gongs.

Binoculars.

Book-ends.

Brooms and brushes.

Buttons.

Church furniture and church requisites.

Cigar and cigarette cases and boxes and articles of which such cases or boxes form part.

Cigar and cigarette holders.

Clocks.

Coins.

Combs.

Chemicals, as follows :

Cosmetics, detergents, disinfectants, fungicides, glycerine (crude), gypsum, hair lotion, insecticides, ochre, perfumery, rat poisons, sheep dips, synthetic tanning materials, weed-killers, dyes and colours, menthol.

Electrical glass bulbs.

Fancy blotters.

Flapjacks.

Fountain pens and pencils.

Guns, sporting, with a smooth bore.

Haberdashery.

Hotel-ware made from imported stampings.

Inkstands.

Iron and steel manufactures as follows :

Children's carriages and accessories therefor, crown corks, hand implements, metal coffin mountings, pedal cycles, razor blades and textile card clothing.

Jewellery and jewellery boxes.

Lanterns.

Lipstick containers.

Machines, office and parts thereof.

Manicture sets.

Manufactures of silver, electro-plate and nickel silver.

Mechanical lighters.

Medals.

Medicines and medicinal preparations.

Musical instruments and accessories therefor.

Nail cleaners, clippers, files and polishers.

Non-ferrous ores and metals as follows :

Copper, copper ores and concentrates, lead ores and concentrates, zinc ashes and zinc flux skimmings.

Outboard engines.

Pipes for smoking tobacco and parts thereof.

Photograph and picture frames.

Powder bowls, boxes, puffs.

Radio receiving sets (domestic), radiograms and accessories therefor.

Road Motor vehicles as follows :

motor cars (including taxis), motor cycles, motor trucks, vans, lorries and station wagons.

Smokers' ash receptacles.

Souvenirs.

Spectacles and parts thereof.

Spring interior mattresses and bases therefor.

Toys.

Vacuum flasks.

Weaving reeds.

Wire and tape recorders.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 21st day of February, 1966.

P. Ó hIRIGHILE,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to enable the Minister for Industry and Commerce to control, for supply or other reasons, the export of the commodities indicated in the Order.