EXPORT DUTIES (CONTINUATION OF INCREASED RATES)

WHEREAS, by virtue of an Order duly made under section 2 of the Revenue Protection Ordinance, the export duties on tea, raw rubber, rubber latex and plumbago became leviable and payable at certain increased rates with effect from the 10th day of July, 1941:

AND WHEREAS, by virtue of a resolution duly passed by the State Council, approved by the Governor and sanctioned by the Secretary of State under section 9 * of the Customs Ordinance, the aforesaid export duties continued to be leviable and payable at those increased rates on and after the 31st day of October, 1941, and it was provided by the aforesaid resolution that the increased rates should so continue to be leviable and payable until a date, not later than the 30th day of November, 1944, which the Governor was empowered to fix by notification in the Gazette :

AND WHEREAS a date as aforesaid was not in fact fixed as required by the resolution before the 30th day of November, 1944, and it has become necessary to declare the export duties leviable and payable after that day on the goods aforesaid :

BE it, therefore, enacted by the Governor of: Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the State Council thereof, as follows : –

* Renumbered section 10 in this Edition.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Export Duties (Continuation of Increased Rates) Ordinance.

2. Export duties upon the goods severally specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall continue to be levied and paid at the rates specified in the corresponding entries in the second column of that Schedule, being the increased rates which came into force on the 10th day of July, 1941, by virtue of an Order duly made under section 2 of the Revenue Protection Ordinance.

3. Each of the export duties prescribed by section 2 shall, for the purposes of the Customs Ordinance, be deemed to be imposed by resolution of the State Council under section 9 * of that Ordinance, and any of those duties may at any time hereafter be abolished, increased, reduced or otherwise altered by resolution of the House of Representatives under that section.

4. Nothing in the preceding provisions of this Ordinance shall affect any export duty on tea, rubber or rubber latex leviable or payable under any written law other than the Customs Ordinance or the Medical Wants Ordinance.

5. This Ordinance shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of December, 1944, and accordingly the export duties levied and paid during the period commencing on that day and ending on the date of the enactment of this Ordinance on the goods specified in the Schedule shall be deemed for all purposes to have been lawfully levied and paid.

* Renumbered section 10 in this Edition.