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CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1876

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1876 - LONG TITLE

An Act to consolidate the Customs Laws.
[24th July 1876]
Whole Act, exc. ss.42, 43, 141, 275, 277, 285, rep. by 1952 c.44
s.320 sch.12 Pt.I

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1876 - SECT 42
Prohibitions and restrictions.

42. The goods enumerated and described in the following table of
prohibitions and restrictions inwards are hereby prohibited to be
imported or brought into the United Kingdom, save as thereby
excepted, ....

...

Coin, viz., false money or counterfeit sterling.

Coin, silver, of the realm, or any money purporting to be such,
not being of the established standard in weight or fineness.

...

Indecent or obscene prints, paintings, photographs, books, cards,
lithographic or other engravings, or any other indecent or obscene
articles.

Snuff work.

...

Infected cattle, sheep, or other animals, or the carcases thereof,
and hides, skins, horns, hoofs, or any other part of cattle, or
other animals which the Privy Council may, by order prohibit in
order to prevent the dissemination of any contagious distemper.

...

Arms, &c. may be prohibited.

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1876 - SECT 43

43. The importation of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, or any other
goods may be prohibited by proclamation or Order in Council.

Foreign ships in coasting trade subject to same rules as British
ships.

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1876 - SECT 141

141. Every foreign ship proceeding either with cargo or passengers
or in ballast on any voyage from one part of the United Kingdom
to another, or from the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark,
or Man to the United Kingdom, or from the United Kingdom to any
of the said islands, or from any of the said islands to any other
of them, or from any part of any of the said islands to any
other part of the same, shall be subject, ... to the same laws,
rules, and regulations to which British ships when so employed are
now subject; but no such foreign ship nor any goods carried therein
shall during the time she is so employed, be subject to any higher
or other rate of dock, pier, harbour, light, pilotage, tonnage, or
other dues, duties, tolls, rates, or other charges whatsoever, or to
any other rules as to the employment of pilots, or any other rules
or restrictions whatsoever, than British ships employed in like
manner or goods carried therein, any law charter special privilege
or grant to the contrary notwithstanding; nor shall any body
corporate or person having or claiming any right or title to any
such higher or other rates dues duties tolls or other charges as
aforesaid be entitled to any compensation in respect thereof under
any law or statute relating thereto, or otherwise howsoever.

S.275 rep. by SLR 1969

Isle of Man deemed part of UK for Customs purposes.

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1876 - SECT 277

277. The Isle of Man shall be deemed and taken to be part of the
United Kingdom for all the purposes of the Customs Acts; but
nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect, or be construed
in any way, directly or indirectly, to prejudice or affect, any of
the rights or privileges legally exercised or enjoyed by the said
isle at the time of the passing of this Act.

Customs fund available for Customs officers of the UK.

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1876 - SECT 285

285. The unrepealed provisions of the Act of the fifty-sixth year
of George the Third, chapter seventy-three, shall apply to and be
available by and for the benefit of the officers, clerks, and other
persons in the department of the Customs in Ireland, and their
relatives, as fully and amply as if they had been originally
mentioned therein, and the Act made applicable to the United Kingdom
instead of England only; and the Life Assurance Companies Act, 1870,
shall not be deemed to apply to the Customs Annuity and Benevolent
Fund.