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REVENUE ACT 1889

REVENUE ACT 1889 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Customs and Inland
Revenue, and for other purposes connected with the Public Revenue
and Expenditure.
[26th August 1889]
PART I$$A

REVENUE ACT 1889 - SECT 2
Prohibition of importation of imitation coin.

2.(1) It shall not be lawful to import or bring into the United
Kingdom any imitation coin as defined by this Act....

(2) Provided that the Commissioners of Customs, acting under the
direction of the Treasury, may permit the importation of any
imitation coin in a particular instance if they are satisfied that
such importation is for the purposes of knowledge or art, or any
exhibition or collection, or for any lawful purpose, and that the
imitation coin is not likely to circulate as current coin, or to
be otherwise used for deceiving the public.

(3) Each of the following articles, if not a British [or foreign]
coin, shall be an imitation coin within the meaning of this Act,
that is to say

(a)Any piece of gold, silver, copper, or bronze, or of metal or
mixed metal, purporting to be a British [or foreign] coin or a
token for British [or foreign] money, or bearing any word or device
which indicates or may reasonably be taken to indicate that the
holder thereof is entitled to demand any value in British [or
foreign] money denoted thereon; and

(b)Any metal, cast, coin, or other like thing made wholly or
partially of metal or any metallic combination, and resembling in
size, figure, and colour any British [or foreign] coin, or having
thereon a device resembling any device on any British [or foreign]
coin, or being so formed that it can, by gilding, silvering,
colouring, washing, or other like process, be so dealt with as to
resemble any British [or foreign] coin.

(4) In this section the expression "British coin" means any coin
coined in or for any of Her Majesty the Queen's mints or lawfully
current by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise in any part of
Her Majesty's dominions, whether within the United Kingdom or
otherwise, and the expression "British money" means money expressed
in the terms of any British coin [and the expression "foreign coin"
means any coin lawfully current in any foreign country, and the
expression "foreign money" means money expressed in terms of any
foreign coin].

Ss.38 rep. by SLR 1908; 1952 c.44 s.320 sch.12 Pt.I

Part II (ss.10, 1214) rep. by 1918 c.40 s.238 sch.7NPart IV
(ss.2129) rep. by 1898 c.46 s.14(5); 1910 c.8 s.96 sch.6; 1921 c.32
s.65(3) sch.5; 1952 c.44 s.320 sch.12 Pt.I; 1976 NI 23 art.17(2)
sch.3

Undisposed of residue of sailors effects.

REVENUE ACT 1889 - SECT 30
> Part III Ss. 15 17 rep. by 1891 c.39 s.123 sch.3. S.18 rep. by
1908 c.69 s.286 sch.6 Pt.I. S.19 amends s.11 of 1884 c.62. S.20
rep. by 1891 c.39 s.123 sch.3

30.(1) If in any case the residue or any part thereof of the
estate or effects of a deceased officer, seaman, or marine, having
been received by the Admiralty, remains undisposed of or
unappropriated for a period of six years and a-half from the date
of the receipt by the Admiralty of notice of the death, the
Admiralty shall, as soon as may be after the expiration of that
period, pay or credit the said residue or part to the Greenwich
Hospital capital account. Provided that this section shall not apply
to any sums received by the Admiralty before the first day of
April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and that the
application under this section of any residue, or part of a
residue, shall not bar any subsequent claim of any person to the
same.

(2) This section shall be construed as part of the Navy and
Marines (Property of Deceased) Act, 1865.

REVENUE ACT 1889 - SECT 31
Remission of fees payable to public department out of public money.

31.(1) Any fee leviable in any public office which would, if
levied, be payable out of money provided by Parliament, shall, if
the Treasury so direct, be remitted.

(2) This section shall apply to all fees, per-centages, and other
sums to which the Public Offices (Fees) Act, 1879, for the time
being applies.

REVENUE ACT 1889 - SECT 32
Accruer and payment of salaries, &c. charged on Consolidated Fund.

32. All salaries, pensions, compensation allowances, and other
allowances which are chargeable on the Consolidated Fund of the
United Kingdom and are payable at quarterly periods shall accrue due
from day to day, and shall be payable on such quarterly days as
may be from time to time determined by the Treasury.

S.33 rep. by SI 1964/488. Ss. 35, 36, rep. by SLR 1908

REVENUE ACT 1889 - SECT 37
Short title.

37. This Act may be cited as the Revenue Act, 1889.

Schedule rep. by SLR 1908