Import Duties (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1939 c. 97 |
| Year | 1939 |
Import Duties (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1939
(2 & 3 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 97.
An Act to make temporary provision for the exercise of powers, which are exercisable on the recommendation of the Import Duties Advisory Committee, without any such recommendation, and for the extension of certain powers of the Treasury and the Board of Trade in relation to duties of customs and excise and drawbacks thereof, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[7th September 1939]
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 adapting certain of the enactments relating to duties of customs and excise and drawbacks thereof to the exigencies of the present emergency, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the duties for which provision is hereinafter contained; 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 Powers exercisable on recommendation of Committee: exercise without recommendation, and extension.
(1) The Treasury may, without any recommendation from the Import Duties Advisory Committee, make any order or grant any licence which the Treasury would have had ower to make or grant if a recommendation in that behalf had been duly made by the said Committee, and may prepare, and make an order under section nine of the Finance Act, 1932 , approving, any scheme which they would have had power by order to approve if the scheme had been duly submitted to them by the said Committee.
(2) Subsections (3) and (4) of section two of the Import Duties Act, 1932 , shall not have effect.
(3) In determining for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section what recommendations or schemes might have been duly made or submitted by the said Committee, the enactments specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to have been enacted with the omission therefrom of the words and provisions specified in the second column of that Schedule.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section any matter which, under any of the enactments conferring power...
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