I move:—
(1) That the several duties mentioned in the third column of the Schedule to this Resolution and respectively imposed by the enactments mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule shall not be charged or levied on any articles imported on or after the 8th day of May, 1947.
(2) That the particulars stated in the fourth column of the Schedule to this Resolution are inserted in the said Schedule solely to facilitate identification of the several duties mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule, and accordingly nothing contained in the said fourth column shall affect the construction or limit or control the operation of this Resolution and the second and third columns of the said Schedule.
(3) It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution shall have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1927 (No. 7 of 1927).
SCHEDULE.
CUSTOMS DUTIES TERMINATED
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Ref. No. |
Enactment imposing the duty |
Particulars of the duty |
General description of the duty |
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1 |
The Finance Act, 1933 (No. 15 of 1933), section 4 and reference number 8 in Part I of the First Schedule, as amended by the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 41) Order, 1934 (S.R. & O., No. 164 of 1934), and the Emergency Imposition of Duties (No. 223) Order, 1941 (S.R. & O., No. 464 of 1941). |
The said duty mentioned at the said reference number 8 as amended by the said Orders. |
The duty on statues, statuettes and busts |
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2 |
The Finance Act, 1935 (No. 28 of 1935), section 10 and reference number 22 in the First Schedule. |
The said duty mentioned at the said reference number 22. |
The duty on monumental, architectural or building stone and marble. |