Import Duties (General Ad Valorem Duty Reduction) Order, 1951
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1951/1174 |
| Year | 1951 |
1951 No. 1174
The Import Duties (General Ad Valorem Duty Reduction) Order, 195129thJune 1951
2ndJuly 1951
1stSeptember 1951
Whereas, having regard to the terms of an agreement entered into between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the governments of certain other countries, and dated the twenty-first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, at Torquay, it appears to the Treasury, on the recommendation of the Board of Trade, to be expedient for the directions given by Article 1 of this Order to have effect:
And whereas, as regards Article 2 of this Order, the Treasury have consulted the appropriate department:
Now, therefore, the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, by virtue, so far as regards the provisions of Article 1 of this Order, of the power conferred on them by section fourteen of the Finance Act, 1933(a), and, so far as regards the provisions of Article 2 of this Order, of the power conferred on them by subsection (5) of section nineteen of the Import Duties Act, 1932(b), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—
1.—(1) Any general ad valorem duty chargeable on goods (wherever grown, produced or manufactured) of a class or description mentioned in either of the following paragraphs shall be charged at the reduced rate mentioned in that paragraph, except in the case of any goods on which the duty is for the time being chargeable at a lower rate.
(2) The rate of the duty shall be seven and a half per cent. of the value of the goods in the case of—
(a) hazel nuts, not in shell;
(b) fired clay products, the following—bricks and blocks of diatomaceous earth;
(c) potassium chlorate.
(3) The rate of the duty shall be five per cent. of the value of the goods in the case of—
(a) calcareous cement (excluding gypseous cement and cement containing wood, asbestos or added colouring matter); and
(b) vegetable hair, being fibres of the dwarf palm chamaerops humilis.
2. Accordingly the Import Duties (Consolidation) Order, 1949(c), shall have effect as if in the Table of Duties set out in the Second Schedule to that Order there were made the amendments provided for by the Schedule to this Order.
3. This Order may be cited as the Import Duties (General Ad Valorem Duty Reduction) Order, 1951.
(b) 22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 8.
(c) S.I. 1949 (No. 2355) I, p. 1298.
4. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of September, nineteen...
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