CUSTOMS DUTIES (ISLE OF MAN) BILL.

HC Deb 12 August 1901 vol 99 cc575-6

Considered in Committee.

(In the Committee.)

[Mr. PARKER SMITH (Lanarkshire, Partick, in the Chair.]

Clause 1:

An Amendment made.

MR. T. M. HEALY

understood there was a separate customs house in the Isle of Man, and he asked what was the position of the island with regard to the coal tax and the sugar duty.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.

said the position of the Isle of Man with regard to the coal duty was similar to that of Ireland. The inhabitants of the Isle of Man would not pay the coal duty, but the Budget Bill recently passed gave the Treasury power to limit the exportation of coal from the Isle of Man, so as to protect the revenue. It was not pro- posed to impose the sugar duty. The Court of Tynwald had imposed duties which were dealt with in the Bill, and the Bill was necessary to confirm the action of the Tynwald Court.

MR. T. M. HEALY

asked whether any Papers on the matter would be laid on the Table, as Members for Ireland were interested in the question of a separate customs house.

MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN

said no Papers had been laid and there were none to lay. The resolution of the Tynwald Court was a very simple one, merely continuing the duties and customs imposed last year.

Bill reported; as amended, to be considered to-morrow.