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ACT NO. 1230
ACT NO. 1230 - AN ACT TO AMEND ACT
NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE SO AS TO ALLOW THE FREE
IMPORTATION OF MERCHANDISE BY THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT WHEN THE ARTICLES
IMPORTED ARE OF SUCH CHARACTER THAT LOCAL COMPETITION THEREFORE IS
IMPRACTICABLE AND ORDERS FOR THE SAME MUST BE PLACED ABROAD
Section 1. Section one of
Act Numbered Eight hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An Act providing
for the collection of duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported
into the Islands for use of the Insular, provincial, or municipal
governments," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words
"except as hereinafter provided."
Sec. 2. Section two of said Act Numbered Eight
hundred and seventy-five is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof
the following words: "And provided further, That this Act shall not
apply to scientific apparatus and books and other merchandise imported
for the Insular Government or any Bureau thereof, or for a provincial
or municipal government, when the articles imported are of such
character that local competition therefor would be impracticable and
orders for the same must necessarily be placed outside of the
Philippine Islands. In each case of importation the Collector of
Customs for the Philippine Islands shall determine whether the articles
are or are not entitled to free entry under this proviso, subject to
the supervisory direction of the Secretary of Finance and Justice."
Sec. 3. The public good requiring the speedy
enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in
accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of
procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September
twenty-sixty, nineteen hundred.
Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
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