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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 28, 1919.

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(3) Where goods are manufactured in a bonded factory in Great Britain or Ireland from dutiable material shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise to have been consigned from and grown or produced in the British Empire, the duty on the manufactured goods shall, to the extent to which they are shown to have been manufactured out of such material, be charged at the preferential rate.

"(4) Any Order-in-Council or regulations made under this section shall be laid be- fore each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after the Order or the regulations are laid before it, praying that the Order or regulations be annulled, His Majesty in Council may annul the Order or re- gulations, and the Order or regulations shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.”

The Second Schedule to the Act is as follows:

Goods.

"Tea

Cocoa

Coffee

Chicory

Currants

PREFERENTIAL RATES.

Rate of Duty.

Dried or preserved fruit (within the mean-

ing of s. 8 of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915)

Five-sixths of the full rate.

Sugar

Glucose

Molasses

Saccharin

Motor Spirit Tobacco

Articles chargeable with the new import duties imposed by s. 12 of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915

Wine:-

Not exceeding 30 degrees of proof spirit. Exceeding 30 degrees of proof spirit.

Sparkling wine in bottle (additional duty) Still wine in bottle (additional duty) Spirits

"The preferential rates shall be charged:--

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Two-thirds of the full rate.

Sixty per cent of the full rate. Sixty-six and two-thirds per cent

of the full rate.

Seventy per cent of the full rate. Fifty per cent of the full rate. Rates equivalent to the full rates as chargeable under this Act up to 1st September, 1919.

"(a) in the case of tea, on and after the second day of June, nineteen hundred

and nineteen ;

"(b) in the case of any other goods, on and after the first day of September,

nineteen hundred and nineteen.”

BOARD OF TRADE ORDERS UNDER SECTION 8 OF FINANCE ACT, 1919.

The following Orders, dated 6th August, have been made by the Board of Trade in pursuance of Section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919, and published in the London Gazette on the 8th August, 1919:-

Sugar and Tobacco Order.

In pursuance of Section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919, the Board of Trade, being satisfied that Refined Sugar, Molasses, and Extracts from Sugar, and Manufactured Tobacco, are to a considerable extent manufactured in the British Empire from material