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1. Where the rate of duty applicable to any class or description of exposed cinematograph film under the Third Schedule to the Finance Act, 1939, amounts in the case of any goods of that class or description to less than ten per cent. of the value of those goods, the general ad valorem duty shall be charged on those goods under Part I of the Import Duties Act, 1932, at such reduced rate as is equal to the rate of duty so applicable.
2. The rates of duty shown in the Second Schedule to the Import Duties (Consolidation) Order, 1949, in respect of exposed cinematograph film described in sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (20) of Group XVIII shall be shown in the second column instead of in the third column; and in relation to such film paragraph 1 of this schedule shall have effect in substitution for sub-paragraph (3) of Article 4 of that Order.
3. The provisions of subsection (2) of section (Import duties on certain sound-recorded material) of this Act may be revoked or varied as if they were contained in an order of the Treasury made under the Import Duties Act, 1932, and the foregoing provisions of this Schedule may be revoked or varied as if they were contained in an order of the Treasury made under section fourteen of the Finance Act, 1933, in pursuance of such an agreement as is mentioned in that section.—[Mr. Boyd-Carpenter.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterI beg to move, "That the Schedule be read a Second time."
This new Schedule is consequential on the Government's new Clause with respect to duties on imported cinema films which the House accepted yesterday.
§ Schedule read a Second time, and added to the Bill.
§ Bill to be read the Third time Tomorrow, and to be printed. [Bill 103.]