Finance Act 1962

2 Lower rates of customs duties on E.F.T.A. goods

(1) In the case of goods of Convention area origin within the meaning of the European Free Trade Association Act, 1960.—

(a) the duties of customs and drawbacks of those duties mentioned in Table I in the First Schedule and in the Second and Fourth Schedules to this Act, instead of being charged or allowed at the full rates there shown shall be charged or allowed at the Convention rates shown in the relevant columns of those Schedules ; and

(b) the duties of customs charged on matches by section four of the Finance Act, 1951, shall be charged at the rate of 19s. 7d. (instead of 19s. lid.) per 10,000 matches in containers in which there are not more than 30 matches, and at the rate of 14s. Id. (instead of 14s. 5d.) per 7,200 matches in containers in which there are more than 30 matches ; and

(c) the duty of customs charged on mechanical lighters by section six of the Finance Act, 1928, shall be charged at the rate of 6s. 6d. (instead of 7s. 0d.) or, in the case of a gas lighter, at the rate of 4s. 6d. (instead of 5s. 0d.).

(2) In the application to any of the said duties of any provision contained in the customs Acts and passed before this Act, any reference to a preferential rate shall be taken as referring only to a rate for goods qualifying for Commonwealth preference, and any reference to the full rate (where distinguished from a preferential rate) shall be taken as including any Convention rate of duty.

(3) This section shall have effect as from the tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-two.