Customs Act 1814
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(54 Geo. 3) C A P. CXXII.
[23d July 1814]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty,intituledAn Act for repealing the several Duties of Customs chargeable in Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof , it is, amongst other things, enacted, that where by the Schedule and Tablethereunto annexed the Duties of Customs by that Act imposed upon Goods, Wares and Merchandize, imported into and exported fromGreat Britain , are charged not according to the Weight, Tale, Gauge or Measure, but according to the Value thereof, such Value shall be ascertained (except in certain cases therein mentioned) by the Declaration of the Importer or Exporter, as the case may be, or his known Agent or Factor, in the Manner and Form, and under all the Rules, Regulations and Restrictions, and subject to the same Forfeitures and Penalties as are prescribed, directed and imposed, for ascertaining and collecting the Duties to be paid according to the Value of Goods, Wares and Merchandize, by an Act passed in the Twenty seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for repealing the several Duties of Customs and Excise, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof; and for applying the said Duties, together with the other Duties composing the Public Revenue; for permitting the Importation of certain Goods, Wares and Merchandize, the Produce and Manufacture of the European Dominions of theFrenchKing, into this Kingdom; and for applying certain unclaimed Monies remaining in the Exchequer, for the Payment of Annuities on Lives, to the Reduction of the National Debt; by which last recited Actit is required, that the Importer or Exporter, as the case may be, or his known Agent or Factor, shall make a Declaration of the Value of such Goods, Wares and Merchandize on the Warrant of the Entry thereof, to be subscribed with the Hand of the Importer, Exporter or Proprietor, as the case may be, or his known Agent or Factor, in the Presence of Two of the principal Officers of the Customs of which the Collector is to be one, who are to certify the same under their Hands; and by several subsequent Acts of Parliament the Value of Goods, Wares and Merchandize imported into and exported fromGreat Britain is also directed to be ascertained in the...
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