CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943 — Page 105

Enclosure in Circular despatch dated 20th May, 1936.

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EXTRACT FROM PROCEEDINGS OF HOUSE OF COMMONS FOR

TUESDAY, 21ST APRIL, 1936.

Imperial Preference (Extension of Period of Stabilization).

4. Resolved, That section seven of the Finance Act, 1926 (which stabilized

for a period expiring on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, the preferential reductions of customs duties allowed in the case of certain Empire products) shall, as amended by any subsequent enactment, have effect as if the

said period were extended until the nineteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and for the purpose of that section the preferential rates chargeable by virtue of section four of the Finance Act, 1928, in the ca of Empire products being sugar, glucose, molasses, and saccharin, shall be deemed to have been in force immediately before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and