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Horticultural Products (Emergency Customs Duties) Act 1931

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Horticultural Products (Emergency Customs Duties) Act 1931
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to make provision for the imposition of duties of Customs on certain descriptions of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, flowers, bulbs, plants and foliage, and for purposes connected therewith.
Citation22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 3
Dates
Royal assent11 December 1931
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1950
Status: Repealed

The Horticultural Products (Emergency Customs Duties) Act 1931 (22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 3) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in late 1931 which gave the Minister of Agriculture the power to impose or raise import duties on fresh fruits, flowers and vegetables.[1]

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  1. ^ C. L. Mowat, Britain Between the Wars 1918-1940 (London: Methuen, 1955), p. 415.