LORDS AMENDMENTS TO THE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BILL. Page 3. Line 8. Leave out ("(whether such Person be the Person impounding or any other Person)") Line 29. After ("shall ") insert ("from and after the First and fifty-five on any public Highway") Line 36. Leave out from ("Majesty ") to the End of the A BILL FOR The further Alteration and Amendment of the Laws and Duties of Customs. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in Committee.] B E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and Preamble. with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem bled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: and Draw Drawbacks 5 I. From and after the Fourth Day of August One thousand eight Instead of all hundred and fifty-four, in lieu and instead of all other Duties and other Duties Drawbacks of Customs, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and backs of Cuspaid unto Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon Goods toms there shall be paid imported into or exported from any Part of Great Britain and Ireland, and allowed 10 the several Duties of Customs, and there shall be allowed the several the Dutiesand Drawbacks, as the same are respectively inserted, described, and set specified in forth in Table (A.) to this Act annexed; and in lieu of all Duties of Tables Customs now payable by Law upon the Importation of Goods into the Isle of Man, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto Table to be 15 Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, the several Duties of Customs as the same are respectively set forth in Figures in Table (B.) ported into to this Act annexed; and all the Goods described as free in the said Isle of Man. Table (A.) shall be exempt from Duty on the Importation thereof Free Goods. into Great Britain and Ireland, and those described as free in the said annexed. Duties in levied on Goods im Goods not reported may be detained till Requisites complied with. Extension of perfecting Sight Entries. Comissioners of Customs to permit special Entries in par ticular Cases. Entries of contain the Table B. shall be exempt from Duty on the Importation thereof in to the Isle of Man. II. Goods not duly reported may be detained by any Officer or Officers of Customs until the same are so reported, and the Cause of the Omission explained to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of 5 Customs, who may thereupon restore the same on such Terms as they may deem proper; and such Goods may in the meantime, should the said Commissioners deem necessary, be removed to the Queen's Warehouse. III. The Time prescribed by the Sixty-fourth Section of "The 10 IV. The Commissioners of Customs may permit the Entries of Goods in such Form and Manner and on such Conditions as they may 15 direct to meet the Exigencies of any Case to which the general Laws and Regulations may not be strictly applicable. V. On the Entry of Arms and Ammunition of War, whether for Home Use, Exportation, or in Transit, the Number of Articles of Number and each Description, as denominated in Table A. to this Act, shall be 20 Description stated in the Import, Export, or Transit Entry, as the Case may be. of the Articles. Goods not worth the Duty and Charges in Queen's Warehouse may be destroyed. The reweighing, re-gauging, &c., of certain Cases VI. All Goods deposited in the Queen's Warehouse, and not duly cleared therefrom within Three Calendar Months, if the same cannot be sold for a Sum sufficient to pay the Duties and Charges if offered for Sale for Home Consumption, or the Charges if offered for Sale for 25 Exportation, may be destroyed by Direction of the Commissioners of Customs. VII. On the re warehousing in the Name of the Proprietor of Goods, either by himself or by the Warehousekeeper, after the Expi ration of Five Years from the last preceding warehousing or re-ware- 30 Goods on housing thereof under Sections One hundred and three and One quintennial re-warehous. hundred and four of "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853," the ing, may in Commissioners of Customs may (first being satisfied that the same are be dispensed in the Warehouse, that the Packages are entire, and that there is no Ground to suspect that there is any undue Deficiency therein,) dis- 35 pense with the re-weighing, re-gauging, or re-measuring and strict Examination thereof, if they be such as are liable on Delivery to the Payment of Duty according to the landing Weight, Measure, or Quantity thereof, and also at the Request of the Warehousekeeper or Proprietor of the Warehouse may (first being satisfied as aforesaid) 40 dispense with the re-weighing, re-gauging, re-measuring, or strict with. Examina Examination on such re-warehousing as aforesaid, of Goods being Wines or other Goods the Duties whereon are payable at the Delivery, Weight, Measure, or Quantity, and which may be liable to Injury by such re-weighing, re-gauging, re-measuring, or strict Examination; but 5 in either of these Cases the Warehousekeeper or Proprietor of such Warehouse shall be liable at the Time of Delivery of such Goods to pay the Duties due on any Deficiency therein not allowed by Law which may then be found to exist, instead of being called upon to make good any Deficiencies which might have been found to exist 10 had such re-weighing, re-guaging, re-measuring, or Examination been resorted to at the Time of such re-warehousing. 15 VIII. If any Ship having Cargo on board shall depart from any Ships with Port without being duly cleared, the Master shall forfeit the Sum of Cargo to One hundred Pounds. clear. IX. Nothing in the Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, shall Tobacco may extend to render any Ship of One hundred and twenty Tons Burden be legally imported in or upwards liable to Forfeiture on account of any Tobacco, Cigars, Packages of or Snuff imported in such Ships into the United Kingdom in Packages 80lbs. Weight. each containing not less than Eighty Pounds net Weight of such 20 Tobacco, Cigars, or Snuff, nor to render any Tobacco, Cigars, or Snuff liable to Forfeiture by reason of its being imported in such Packages, nor to render any such Ship or any Tobacco, Cigars, or Snuff so imported liable to Forfeiture under the Two hundred and twelfth Section of the said Act. 25 Islands to X. If in the Channel Islands any Goods, the Importation whereof Prohibited into the United Kingdom is prohibited or restricted, shall be shipped Goods not to be shipped or brought to any Wharf, Quay, or other Place in, or be waterborne from the to be shipped on board any Ship clearing or departing from those Channel Islands to the United Kingdom, such Goods shall be forfeited, and the United 30 any Person who shall so ship, bring, or waterbear to be shipped any Kingdom. such Goods, or be otherwise knowingly concerned therein, shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds or Treble the Value of the Goods, at the Election of the Commissioners of Customs. 35 40 XI. The Islands in the Bay of Honduras, called the Bay Islands, To place the Bay Islands shall be deemed and taken to be excepted or excluded from the Operaon the same tion of the One hundred and fifty-ninth Section of the "Customs Consolidation Act, 1853," to the same Extent as the Bahamas or Bermuda Islands are thereby excepted or excluded. footing as mudas. the Ber British and Irish Spirits prohibited to be brought from the XIII. The Isle of Man. XII. No British or Irish Spirits shall be removed or exported from the Isle of Man to any other Part of the United Kingdom, under Pain of Forfeiture thereof. [270.] |