LegalizeS.I. No. 194/1955 - Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 359) (Glucose) Order, 1955
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S.I. No. 194 of 1955.
EMERGENCY IMPOSITION OF DUTIES (No. 359) (GLUCOSE) ORDER, 1955.
The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section I of the Emergency Imposition of Duties Act, 1932 (No. 16 of 1932), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—
1.
This Order may be cited as the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 359) (Glucose) Order, 1955.
2.
The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.
3.
A duty of customs at the rate of an amount equal to thirty-seven and one-half per cent. of the value of the article shall be charged, levied and paid on each of the following articles imported on or after the 21st day of October, 1955, that is to say, glucose, including liquid glucose, but excluding chemically pure sugars.
4.
The duty on glucose imposed by subsection (3) of section 9 of the Finance Act, 1946 (No. 15 of 1946), and mentioned in Part I of the Second Schedule to that Act shall not be charged or levied on glucose imported on or after the 21st day of October, 1955.
5.
The provisions of section 9 of the Finance Act, 1946 , and the Second Schedule thereto relating to drawback shall cease to apply in respect of glucose and, in lieu thereof, the provisions of section 24 of the Finance Act, 1933 (No. 15 of 1933), shall apply in respect of all glucose whether imported before or after the making of this Order.
6.
Where any imported manufactured or prepared goods contain as a part or ingredient thereof any article chargeable with the duty imposed by this Order neither the Customs Tariff Act, 1876, nor section 7 of the Finance Act, 1901, shall apply in respect of the quantity of such article contained in such goods so as to render such goods or any proportion thereof chargeable with the duty imposed by this Order.
7.
The following statutory provisions shall apply and have effect in the manner hereinafter mentioned, that is to say :—
- (a) the provisions of section 6 of the Finance (Agreement with United Kingdom) Act, 1938 (No. 12 of 1938), shall apply and have effect in relation to the duty imposed by this Order as if the articles chargeable with that duty were mentioned in the second column of the FirstSchedule to the said Act, and this Order were mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of the said articles in the said second column, and the rate of an amount equal to twenty-five per cent. of the value of the article were specified in the fourth column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of the said articles in the said second column ;
- (b) the provisions of section 16 of the said Act and the regulations made under that section shall apply and have effect for the purpose of the said section 6 as applied by this paragraph.
8.
Whenever the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, 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 articles chargeable with such duty or, in the case of any such articles 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).
9.
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 14th day of October, 1955.
JOHN A. COSTELLO,
Taoiseach.
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