HC Deb 21 November 1957 vol 578 c711

Resolution reported. That any Act of the present Session making provision for charging customs duties in place of that made by the Import Duties Act, 1932, may make provision—

  1. (a) for prescribing a form of tariff for use for any customs purpose whether relating to the new duties to be charged under the Act or other duties;
  2. (b) for securing a uniform system of Commonwealth preference for the new duties and other customs duties where preference is now given to Commonwealth goods and adapting the enactments relating to customs preferences to the provision made for the new duties:
  3. (c) for extending to any customs duties any provision made for the new duties in relation to produce of the sea or goods produced or manufactured at sea;
  4. (d) for exemptions, drawbacks and other reliefs from the new duties, for the administration of the new duties and of any such relief and for constituting in that behalf a Board with the general function of giving assistance to Government departments concerned with the new duties and such other functions as may be conferred on it, and generally for any subordinate matters.

Resolution read a Second time.

Question, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution, put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 86 (Ways and Means Motions and Resolutions), and agreed to.

Bill ordered to be brought in upon the said Resolutions by the Chairman of Ways and Means, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir David Eccles, and Mr. Vaughan-Morgan.