Irish Free State (Special Duties) Act 1932
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Irish Free State (Special Duties) Act, 1932
(22 & 23 Geo. 5.) 30.
An Act to provide for the imposition of customs duties on goods imported directly or indirectly from the Irish Free State with a view to making good any loss incurred by, or any additional charge imposed on, any public fund of the United Kingdom by reason of any failure of the Government of the Irish Free State to implement their obligations, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[12th July 1932]
Most Gracious Sovereign,
Be , Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, with a view to making good any loss incurred by, or any additional charge imposed on, any public fund of the United Kingdom by reason of any failure of the Government of the Irish Free State to implement their obligations, 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 Power of the Treasury to impose duties.
(1) If it appears to the Treasury that any failure of the Government of the Irish Free State to implement their obligations has resulted, or is likely to result, in a direct loss to the revenue of any public fund of the United Kingdom or in an additional charge on any such fund, then, subject to the provisions of this Act, the Treasury, with a view to the making good of the loss or the additional charge, may, after consultation with any Government department which appears to the Treasury to be interested, by Order made for the purposes of this Act, direct that there shall be charged on the importation into the United Kingdom of articles of any class or description imported from the Irish Free State, or exported from the Irish Free State to any other country and thence brought into the United Kingdom, such duties of customs as may be specified in the Order, and any duty so directed to be charged shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be chargeable under this Act:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall apply to any articles imported or brought as aforesaid which are shown to the satisfaction of the...
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