Sugar Convention Act 1903
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1903 c. 21 |
| Year | 1903 |
Sugar Convention Act, 1903.
(3 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 21.
An Act to make provision for giving effect to a Convention signed the Fifth day of March Nineteen hundred and two, in relation to Sugar.
[11th August 1903]
W HEREAS His Majesty the King and divers foreign Powers have entered into a Convention signed the Fifth day of March, Nineteen hundred and two, in relation to sugar; and it is expedient to give effect to that Convention:
And whereas provision is made under Article VII. of the Convention for the establishment of a permanent commission with a permanent bureau attached to it charged with watching the execution of the provisions of the Convention (in this Act referred to as the Permanent Commission).
Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 Powers with respect to bounty-fed sugar.
(1) Where it is reported by the Permanent Commission that any direct or indirect bounty is granted in any foreign country on the production or export of sugars, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, make a prohibition order, that is to say, an order prohibiting sugar from that foreign country to be imported or brought into the United Kingdom, subject to any provision which may be made by Parliament, in lieu of such prohibition, to impose a special duty on such sugar in accordance with the Convention.
(2) While a prohibition order is in force, the laws relating to Customs shall apply as if the sugar, in respect of which the Order is made, were specified in the table of prohibitions and restrictions inwards, contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 .
(3) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, make such regulations as appear to him necessary, in relation to any Order under this section, and may by those regulations in particular require the origin of all sugar imported or brought into the United Kingdom, whether in transit or otherwise, to be proved by such certificate or other evidence as may be provided in the Order.
(4) An Order made under this section shall not apply to molasses nor, except as expressly mentioned in this section, to sugar in transit.
(5) Any share of the expenses on account of the organisation and working of the Permanent Commission, as determined in pursuance of the Convention, and any...
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