Import Duties (General) (No. 2) Order, 1961

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1961/279
Year1961

1961 No. 279

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Import Duties (General) (No. 2) Order, 1961

21stFebruary 1961

24thFebruary 1961

1stMarch 1961

The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by virtue of the powers conferred on them by sections one, two and thirteen of the Import Duties Act, 1958(a), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, on the recommendation of the Board of Trade hereby make the following Order:—

1. In the Schedule to the Import Duties (General) Order, 1958(b) (which, by reference to the Customs Tariff, 1959, sets out the import duties chargeable under the Import Duties Act, 1958), in headings No. 44.05(G) and No. 44.28(C) (which, as amended by the Import Duties (General) (No. 9) Order, 1959(c), relate to pencil slats) the rates of duty shall be omitted in the second column, and there shall be added the following sub-headings:—

"(1) Of incense cedar, not exceeding 7½ inches in —
                 length and 3 inches in width
                 (2) Other … … … … … … … 10%"
                

with the rates of duty in the second column.

2.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Import Duties (General) (No. 2) Order, 1961.

(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889(d), shall apply for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(3) This Order shall come into operation on the first day of March, ninteen hundred and sixty-one.

John Hill, J. D. Gibson-Watt, Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

Dated this twenty-first day of February, 1961.

(a) 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 6.

(b) S.I. 1958/973 (1958 I, p. 454).

(c) S.I. 1959/1591 (1959 I, p. 860).

(d) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note does not form part of the Order, but is intended to indicate its...

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