Beef and Veal Customs Duties Act 1937
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1937 c. 8 |
| Year | 1937 |
Beef and Veal Customs Duties Act, 1937
(1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 8.
An Act to provide for charging duties of customs on beef and veal and on extracts and essences of beef or veal, and for purposes connected with the matter aforesaid.
[18th February 1937]
Most Gracious Sovereign,
We , Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, with a view to affording assistance to the livestock industry in the United Kingdom, and to making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the duties of customs hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Customs duties on beef and veal.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, there shall be charged on the importation into the United Kingdom of goods of the classes and descriptions specified in the first column of the following table, not being Empire products, duties of customs at the rates specified in the second column of that table:—
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(a ) Beef and veal not preserved in any airtight container (excluding offals and boned and boneless meat):— |
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Chilled |
the lb.
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Other kinds |
the lb.
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(b ) Boned and boneless beef and veal and edible offals of beef and veal, not being beef, veal or offals preserved in any airtight container, and excluding sweetbreads |
20 per cent. of the value of the goods. |
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(c ) Beef and veal preserved in any airtight container (including edible offals of beef and veal, but excluding sweetbreads):— |
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Tongues |
20 per cent. of the value of the goods. |
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Other goods |
10 per cent. of the value of the goods. |
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(d ) Extracts and essences wholly or in part derived from beef or veal |
10 per cent. of the value of the goods. |
(2) No duty shall be chargeable under this section in respect of any sausages or pastes.
(3) Any duty chargeable under this section on any goods shall be chargeable in addition to any other duty of customs for the time being chargeable thereon, whether under the Import Duties Act, 1932 , or otherwise, and goods chargeable with duty under this section shall, for the purposes of the Import Duties Act, 1932, be deemed not to be goods chargeable with a duty of customs by or under an enactment other than that Act.
(4) The provisions of Part I of the Schedule to this Act shall apply in relation to goods chargeable with duty under this section,...
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