Import Duties (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939
[7th September 1939.] Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, with a view to adapting certain of the enactments relating to duties of customs and excise and drawbacks thereof to the exigencies of the present emergency, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the duties for which provision is hereinafter contained; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty th...