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Rh 5. Any warrant granted under paragraph (4) of Article 9 of the principal Order and any order made under paragraph (5) of that Article, being a warrant or order which is in force at the date of the coming into operation of this Order, shall continue in force and have effect as if granted or made under paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be, of Article 19 of the principal Order as amended by this Order. Rupert B. Howorth.

ACT OF PARLIAMENT to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue and the National Debt, and to make further provision in connection with Finance

[3 & 4 Geo. VI, c. 29] Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray your Majesty’s public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1—(1) The duty of excise charged in respect of beer under sub-section (1) of section one of “The Finance (No. 2) Act, 1939") (hereafter in this section referred to as “the Act of 1939"), shall be charged at the increased rates set out in part I of the first schedule to this Act; and accordingly the said section me shall have effect as if the said part I were substituted for part I of the first schedule to the Act of 1939.

(2) In the case of beer in respect of which it is shown to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners that a duty of excise at any wech increased rate has been paid, the excise drawback allowed