ÆäÀÌÁö À̹ÌÁö
PDF
ePub

IMPORTATION.

66

If any goods, enumerated in the following Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions as Goods absolutely prohibited" be imported into the United Kingdom; or, if any goods enumerated in such table as "Goods prohibited, except in transit, &c." be imported, except in accordance with such regulations; or if any goods enumerated therein as “ Goods subject to certain restrictions" be imported contrary thereto,-then such goods may be forfeited and disposed of as the Commissioners of Customs may direct.

GOODS ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITED TO BE IMPORTED. (16 and 17 Vict., cap. 107, and 18 and 19 Vict., cap. 96.)

Books, wherein the Copyright shall be first subsisting, first composed, or written, or printed, in the United Kingdom, and printed or reprinted in any other country, as to which the proprietor of such copyright, or his agent, shall have given to the Commissioners of Customs a notice in writing that such Copyright subsists, such notice also stating when such Copyright will expire.(')

(1) The Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs shall cause to be made, and to be publicly exposed, from time to time, printed lists of all books wherein the Copyright shall be subsisting, and as to which the proprietor or his agent shall have given notice in writing that such Copyright subsists, such notice also stating when such Copyright expires.-16 and 17 Vict. cap. 107, s. 46.

If any person have cause to complain of the insertion of any book in the lists, any judge at chambers, on application, may issue a summons calling upon the person, upon whose notice such book shall have been so inserted, to appear before him and show cause why such book shall not be expunged from such lists. The judge shall proceed to hear and determine upon the matter, and make his order thereon in writing; and the Commissioners of Customs, upon service of such order, shall expunge such book from the list, or retain the same therein, according to the order.-18 & 19 Vict., cap. 96, s. 39.

No book shall be inserted in any such list until the person giving the required notice shall have made and subscribed a declaration before the Collector of Customs, or any justice of the peace, that the contents of such notice are true.-18 & 19 Vict., cap. 96, s. 40.

The officers are to detain all foreign printed copies of works, wherein the copyright may be subsisting, which may be imported for private use or otherwise, and to govern themselves by the 17th s. of 5 & 6 Vict., cap. 45.—B. M., 21st March, 1843.

B

COIN, viz., False Money, or Counterfeit Sterling; Silver Coin of the Realm, or any money purporting to be such, not being of the established standard in weight or fineness. EXTRACTS, ESSENCES, or other Concentrations of Coffee, Chicory, Tea or Tobacco, or any admixture of the same. MALT, whether in grain, or in the form of concentrated extract or essence, but not including any of the fermented liquors made from malt now specified in the Tariff. PRINTS, Indecent or Obscene, Paintings, Books, Cards, Lithographic or other Engravings, or any other Indecent or Obscene articles.

SNUFF WORK. TOBACCO STALKS, stripped from the leaf, whether manufactured or not, and TOBACCO STALK FLOUR.

GOODS PROHIBITED TO BE IMPORTED, EXCEPT IN TRANSIT, AND SUBJECT TO SUCH REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS AS THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE TREASURY MAY DIRECT, AND DULY REPORTED AS GOODS IN TRANSIT.(')

ARTICLES OF FOREIGN MANUFACTURE, and any packages ofsuch articles, bearing any names, brands, or marks being or purporting to be the names, brands, or marks of manufacturers resident in the United Kingdom.(2) CLOCKS and WATCHES of any metal, impressed with any mark or stamp appearing to be or to represent any legal British assay mark, or stamp, or purporting by any mark or appearance to be of the manufacture of the United Kingdom.

PARTS of ARTICLES, viz., Any distinct or separate part of any article not accompanied by the other part or all the other parts of such articles, so as to be complete and perfect, if such articles be subject to duty according to the value thereof.(3)

(1) The regulations affecting goods imported for the purpose of transhipment will be found at p. 115.

(2) When goods are imported with the marks of English firms upon them, and it can be shown that the firms, whose marks they bear, are the owners and importers of the goods, the same may be cleared in the usual way; but if the goods so marked be imported by other persons, they must be stopped.G O., No. 72, 1853.

(3) Not applicable to watch movements and parts of unfinished watches.— G. O,, No. 15, 1855.

GOODS PROHIBITED TO BE IMPORTED EXCEPT SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTATION, HEREIN CONTAINED.

ARMS, AMMUNITION, GUNPOWDER, or any other goods, may be prohibited by proclamation or order in Council. INFECTED CATTLE, SHEEP, or other animals, and hides, skins, horns, hoofs, or any other part of cattle or other animals, which Her Majesty may, by order in Council, prohibit, in order to prevent any contagious distemper. SILK:-Manufactures of Silk, being the manufactures of Europe, unless into London, Liverpool, Hull, Southampton, Leith, Dublin, (') or ports appointed by the Commissioners, or into Dover or Folkstone direct from Calais or Boulogne, and unless in ships of 50 tons burden or upwards.

SPIRITS (not being perfumed or Medicinal Spirits), (2) unless in ships of 50 tons burden at least, and in casks, or other vessels, each of such casks or other vessels, being of the content of 20 gallons at least, and duly reported, or in glass bottles, or stone bottles, not exceeding the size of 3-pint bottles, and being part of the cargo of the importing ship, and duly reported. TOBACCO, CIGARS, and SNUFF, (3) unless in whole and complete packages, each containing not less than 80 lbs. weight, and unless in ships of not less than 120 tons burden, and unless into ports approved by the Commissioners of Customs.

(1) Newcastle approved for 12 months, as an experimental measure.-B.O. June, 1857. Approved for a further period of 12 months.-B.O. June, 1858. Newhaven approved for Silks imported from Dieppe.-B.O. 6th Feb,, 1854.

(2) Or Cordials.-T.O. 4th March, 1826. Vessels of not less than 50 tons, on their voyage from any port in Germany or Holland, and calling at a British port to complete their cargoes, are permitted to have on board Demi-johns of Geneva, of 2 gallons each, provided that a consular certificate, specifying their number and mark, accompany them; and that, previously to the vessel being cleared out, a special bond be entered into by the agent of the foreign merchant for the due landing thereof at a foreign port.-G.O. No. 67, 1857. Extended to the introduction of Geneva at ports to which the transhipment regulations apply, for the purpose of transhipment into other vessels.-G.O. No. 81, 1857.

(3) Tobacco may be imported into the following Ports only, viz. :—

Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol, Cork, Cowes, Drogheda, Dublin, Falmouth, Fleetwood, Galway, Glasgow, Greenock, Hartlepool, Hull, Lancaster, Leith, Limerick, Liverpool, London, Londonderry, Newcastle, Newry, Plymouth, Port Glasgow, Portsmouth, Preston, Sligo, Southampton, Swansea, Waterford, Wexford, Whitehaven.

COMPUTATION OF DUTIES.

In the computation of duties, all fractions of a penny less than a halfpenny are to be rejected; but when they amount to, or exceed that sum, an additional penny must be charged. But in making payments, all fractions are to be rejected.— G. O. 11th March, 1831.

OVER-PAYMENT OF DUTIES.

Duties of Customs overpaid or erroneously charged, cannot be repaid, unless claimed within six years.-16 & 17 Vict., cap. 107, s. 25.

When over-payments of duties arise, the merchant is to be apprised thereof in writing, agreeably to a prescribed form, which is to be filled up in the office where the error may be discovered, and to be signed by the Principal of the department.-G.O. No. 74, 1852.

RECEIPT FOR DUTIES.

Every person may obtain, gratis, a receipt for the duties which he pays, on giving an additional bill of entry, written in red ink; the duplicate thus given, after having been compared with the warrant and signed by the officer in the Long Room, is to be delivered as a receipt to the party requiring it.-B. M. 2nd March, 1844.

ARTICLES ON WHICH THE ADDITIONAL DUTY OF 5 PER Cent. MUST BE CHARGED.

[blocks in formation]
« ÀÌÀü°è¼Ó »