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Motion made, and Question proposed,
That the Additional Import Duties (No. 3) Order, 1946 (S.R. & O. 1946, No. 1637), dated 12th October, 1946, made by the Treasury under the Import Duties Act, 1932, a copy of which Order was presented on 15th October, be approved."—[Mr. Glenvil Hall.]
§ Mr. Osbert Peake (Leeds, North)Perhaps the Financial Secretary would tell us if this Order imposes any new or additional Duties, or is merely a re-definition of Duties previously imposed?
§ 1.50 p.m.
§ The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)In reply to the right hon. Gentleman, may I say that the Order simply tries to clear up an ambiguity in the original Order. It had been hoped to make this new Order as far back as 1939, when the ambiguity was first discovered. The war intervened, and this is 207 an attempt, and we think a successful one, to put the matter right now and to put the purpose of the Order beyond any doubt. It does not impose any new duties, and it is our view that, as a result of the change of wording and of the clarification of the original Order by the substitution of these new paragraphs, something like £10,000 more will come in. There is no change in the imposition of the original Duty.
§ Question put, and agreed to.