Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1883
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1883 c. 10 |
| Year | 1883 |
Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1883
(46 & 47 Vict.) CHAPTER 10.
An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, to alter other Duties, and to amend the Laws relating to Customs and Inland Revenue.
[31st May 1883]
Most Gracious Sovereign,
W E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theCustoms and Inland Revenue Act, 1883.
PART I.
Customs and Excise.
2 Import duties on tea.
2. The duties of customs now chargeable upon tea shall continue to be levied and charged, on and after the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, on the importation thereof into Great Britain or Ireland; (that is to say,)
Tea, the pound |
Sixpence. |
3 Certain explosive substances to be restricted goods under 39 & 40 Vict. c. 36.
3. All explosives within the meaning of the Explosives Act, 1875, on the unloading or landing of which any restriction is imposed by or in pursuance of that Act, and all explosive substances within the meaning of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883, which are forfeited under that Act, shall be deemed to be restricted goods within the meaning of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and this section shall be read as part of the last-mentioned Act.
4 Alteration of date of expiration of certain game licences.
4. Every licence or certificate to kill game now in force, or to be taken out under the Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter ninety, which expires, or would expire, under the provisions of that Act on the fifth day of April, shall expire on the thirty-first day of July, and wherever in such provisions the fifth day of April is mentioned or referred to, the same shall be read as if the thirty-first day of July had been therein inserted in lieu of the said fifth day of April.
5 Game licences for short periods.
5. A licence or certificate to kill game may be taken out under the provisions of the Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter ninety, for a continuous period of fourteen days to be specified in such licence or certificate, and there shall be granted and paid thereon the duty of one pound.
6 Alteration of date of expiration of gun licences.
6. Every licence granted under the Gun Licence Act, 1870, shall expire on the thirty-first day of July next following the day of the date thereof: Provided, that in the case of any such licence in force at the passing of this Act, or to be granted before the first day of August next after the passing thereof, the same shall not expire until the thirty-first day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.
7 Extension of term carriage in provision \(6) of s. 19 of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14. to carriage moved by mechanical...
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