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CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1853

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1853 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Customs
of the United Kingdom and of the Isle of Man, and certain Laws
relating to Trade and Navigation and the British Possessions.{1}
[20th August 1853]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1892

Ss.1323 rep. by 1867 c.82 s.27 sch.; 1873 c.88 s.30 sch.2; 1876
c.36 s.288 sch.A; 1913 c.27 s.20 sch. Pt.I; 1952 c.44 s.320 sch.12
Pt.I

As to reciprocity in commerce between British and foreign countries:[

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1853 - SECT 324
Her Majesty, by Order in Council, may impose restrictions on ships
of a foreign country in certain cases;

324. If it shall be made to appear to Her Majesty that British
vessels are subject in any foreign country to any prohibitions or
restrictions as to the voyages in which they may engage, or as to
the articles which they may import into or export from such
country, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty (if she think fit), by
Order in Council, to impose such prohibitions or restrictions upon
the ships of such foreign country, either as to the voyages in
which they may engage or as to the articles which they may import
into or export from any part of the United Kingdom or of any
British possession in any part of the world, as Her Majesty may
think fit, so as to place the ships of such country on as nearly
as possible the same footing in British ports as that on which
British ships are placed in the ports of such country.][

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1853 - SECT 325
and may impose additional duties of tonnage on such ships, and on
goods imported or exported therein.

325. If it shall be made to appear to Her Majesty that British
ships are either directly or indirectly subject in any foreign
country to any duties or charges of any sort or kind whatsoever
from which the national vessels of such country are exempt, or that
any duties are imposed upon articles imported or exported in British
ships which are not equally imposed upon the like articles imported
or exported in national vessels, or that any preference whatsoever
is shown either directly or indirectly to national vessels over
British vessels, or to articles imported or exported in national
vessels over the like articles imported or exported in British
vessels, or that British trade and navigation is not placed by such
country upon as advantageous a footing as the trade and navigation
of the most favoured nation, then and in any such case it shall
be lawful for Her Majesty (if she think fit), by Order in Council,
to impose such duty or duties of tonnage upon the ships of such
nation entering into or departing from the ports of the United
Kingdom, or of any British possession in any part of the world, or
such duty or duties on all goods or on any specified classes of
goods, imported or exported in the ships of such nation, as may
appear to Her Majesty justly to countervail the disadvantages to
which British trade or navigation is so subjected as aforesaid.][

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1853 - SECT 326
Order in Council may specify to what ships it applies.

326. And in every such order Her Majesty may, if she so think
fit, specify what ships are to be considered as ships of the
country or countries to which such order applies; and all ships
answering the description contained in such order shall be considered
to be ships of such country or countries for the purposes of such
order.]

Ss.327329 rep. by 1876 c.36 s.288 sch.A; 1935 c.2 s.321 sch.10; SRO
1936/672 (I p.1114); SLR 1963; SL(R) 1971[

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1853 - SECT 330
Publication of Orders in Council.

330. Every such Order in Council as aforesaid shall, within fourteen
days after the issuing thereof, be twice published in the London
Gazette; and a copy thereof shall be laid before both Houses of
Parliament within six weeks after the issuing the same, if
Parliament be then sitting, and if not, within six weeks after the
commencement of the then next session of Parliament.][

CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT 1853 - SECT 331
Orders in Council may be revoked.

331. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time to
revoke any Order or Orders in Council made under the authority of
this Act.]

Ss.332360 rep. by 1876 c.36 s.288 sch.A; SLR 1969.

Schedules rep. by 1876 c.36 s.288 sch.A