HC Deb 26 April 1926 vol 194 c1781

Resolved, That—

  1. (a) the Duties of Customs imposed by Section one of the Safeguarding of Industries Act, 1921, for a period of five years expiring on the nineteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, on the goods specified in the Schedule to that Act shall subject to the provisions of this Resolution, continue to be charged for a further period of ten years from the said day at the rates at which they are then in force; and
  2. (b) in the case of optical glass and the other goods specified in the first paragraph of the Schedule to the said Act, the Duties of Customs chargeable thereon shall, as from the first day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, be duties equal to one-half instead of one-third of the value of the goods; and
  3. (c) in the case of arc-lamp carbons the Duty of Customs chargeable thereon by section one of the said Act shall, as from the first day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, be a duty at the rate of one shilling per pound instead of a duty equal to one-third of the value of the goods.
And it is 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, 1913.