Supplemental Customs Consolidation Act 1855
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1855 c. 96 |
(18 & 19 Vict.) C A P. XCVI.
[14th August 1855]
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:
I Customs Duties, &c. payable to Exchequer Account of Bank of England to be received under such Regulations as the Treasury shall prescribe.
I. All Customs Duties and other Public Moneys payable to the Exchequer Account at the Bank ofEngland shall be received to the Credit of such Account by the Governor and Company of the said Bank, under such Regulations and Directions as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall from Time to Time prescribe; and the Specifications or Statements of Particulars required by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled Westminster, to be delivered to the Cashier or other Officer of the Bank ofEngland by the Person paying in any such Money, shall be required only in such Cases and shall be signed and issued by such Person as the said Commissioners shall from Time to Time direct; and the Acquittances for all Payments made to the Account of the Exchequer at the Bank of England shall be made out in such Form and under such Regulations as shall be prescribed by the said Commissioners; and such Acquittances shall have in all respects the same Force and Validity in Law as the Acquittances heretofore given by the Comptroller of the Exchequer by virtue of the Ninth Section of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Fifteen; and the several Orders, Rules, and Regulations which may be issued under the Authority of this Act by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, as relating to such Specifications and Acquittances as aforesaid, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Six Weeks after the Issue of such Orders, Rules, and Regulations, if Parliament shall be sitting, or if not sitting, then within Six Weeks next immediately after the re-assembling of Parliament.
II Importation of Tobacco in Packages less than 80 lbs. prohibited.
II. Tobacco, Cigars, and Snuff are hereby prohibited to be imported into the United Kingdom, unless in whole and complete Packages, each containing not less than Eighty Pounds net Weight of such Tobacco, Cigars, or Snuff, and unless in Ships of not less than One hundred and twenty Tons Burden, and unless into such Ports as are or may be approved by the Commissioners of Customs for the Importation and Warehousing of Tobacco; and any Tobacco, Cigars, or Snuff imported into the United Kingdom contrary hereto shall be subject to the Provisions contained in the Forty-fourth Section of ‘The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853,’ in the same Manner as if this Prohibition had been originally enacted in the Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions to the said Section, of which it is hereby declared to form a Part.
III Goods not reported may be detained.
III. Goods not duly reported may be detained by any Officer or Officers of Customs until the same are so reported, and the Cause of the Omission explained to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs, who may thereupon restore the same on such Terms as they may deem proper; and such Goods may in the meantime, should the said Commissioners deem necessary, be removed to the Queen's Warehouse.
IV Time for perfecting Entries by Bills of Sight.
IV. The Time prescribed by the Sixty-fourth Section of ‘The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853,’ for perfecting Entries by Bill of Sight, may be extended at the Discretion of the Commissioners of Customs.
V Commissioners may permit special Entries.
V. The Commissioners of Customs may permit the Entries of Goods in such Form and Manner and on such Conditions as they may direct to meet the Exigencies of any Case to which the general Laws and Regulations may not be strictly applicable.
VI Certain Goods in Queen's Warehouse may be destroyed.
VI. All Goods not being of a perishable Nature deposited in the Queen's Warehouse, and not cleared within Three Months, and all Goods of a perishable Nature so deposited and not cleared forthwith, may, in case the same cannot be sold for a Sum sufficient to pay the Duties and Charges if offered for Sale for Home Consumption, or the Charges if offered for Sale for Exportation, be destroyed by Direction of the Commissioners of Customs.
VII Combustibles not to be deposited in Queen's Warehouse.
VII. No Goods of a combustible or inflammable Nature shall be brought into or deposited in the Queen's Warehouse, unless with the Sanction of the Commissioners of Customs and if any such Goods shall be landed by the Officers of Customs under the Seventy-fourth Section of ‘The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853,’ the same may be deposited in any Place that such Officers may deem fit, and whilst so deposited the same shall be deemed to be in the Queen's Warehouse, and be liable to be dealt with, at the Expiration of Fourteen Days, in the same Manner as Goods of a perishable Nature actually deposited in the Queen's Warehouse, unless duly cleared or warehoused in some approved Warehouse in the meantime; and such Goods shall be chargeable with such Expenses for securing, watching, and guarding the same until sold, cleared, or warehoused as aforesaid, as the Commissioners shall see fit, and neither the said Commissioners nor their Officers shall be liable to make good any Damage which such Goods may sustain by reason or during the Time of their being so deposited and dealt with as aforesaid.
VIII Power to dispense with the re-weighing, &c. of Goods on quinquennial re-warehousing, in certain Cases.
VIII. On the re-warehousing in the Name of the Proprietor of Goods, either by himself or by the Warehouse-keeper, after the Expiration of Five Years from the last preceding warehousing or re-warehousing thereof under Sections One hundred and three and One hundred and four of ‘The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853,’ the Commissioners of Customs may (first being satisfied that the same are in the Warehouse, that the Packages are entire, and that there is no Ground to suspect that there is any undue Deficiency therein,) dispense with the re-weighing, re-gauging, or re-measuring, and strict Examination thereof, if they be such as are liable on Delivery to the Payment of Duty according to the landing Weight, Measure, or Quantity thereof, and also at the Request of the Warehouse-keeper or Proprietor of the Warehouse may (first being satisfied as aforesaid) dispense with the re-weighing, re-gauging, re-measuring, or strict Examination on such re-warehousing as aforesaid of Goods being Wines or other Goods the Duties whereon are payable at the Delivery, Weight, Measure, or Quantity, and which may be liable to Injury by such re-weighing, re-gauging, re-measuring, or strict Examination; but in either of these Cases the Warehouse-keeper or Proprietor of such Warehouse shall be liable at the Time of Delivery of such Goods to pay the Duties due on any Deficiency therein not allowed by Law which may then be found to exist, instead of being called upon to make good any Deficiencies which might have been found to exist had such re-weighing re-gauging, re-measuring, or Examination been resorted to at the Time of such re-warehousing.
IX Goods not to be shipped except on proper Days and Places, nor until Entry and Clearance.
IX. No Goods shall be shipped, put off, or water-borne to be shipped for Exportation from any Port or Place in the United Kingdom, except on Days not beingSundays or Holidays, nor from any Place except some Legal Quay, Wharf, or other Place duly appointed for such Purpose, nor without the Presence or Authority of the proper Officer of Customs, nor before due Entry Outwards of such Ship and due Entry of such Goods, nor before such Goods shall have been duly cleared for Shipment; and any Goods shipped, put off, or water-borne to be shipped contrary hereto shall be forfeited; and it shall be lawful for the Searcherto open or cause to be opened and to examine all Goods shipped or brought for Shipment at any Place in the United Kingdom, and the opening for that Purpose of Packages containing Goods upon which any Drawback of Customs or Inland Revenue is claimed, and the weighing, repacking, landing (when water-borne), and the shipping thereof shall be done by or at the Expense of the Exporter.
X Penalty on failing to deliver Shipping Bill.
X. Any Exporter of Goods who shall fail, either by himself or his Agent, to deliver to the Searcher a Shipping Bill, with Duplicates thereof, of the Goods exported by him, as prescribed by the One hundred and twenty-fifth Section of ‘The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853,’ shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds.
XI Penalty on departing without Clearance.
Xl. If any Ship having Cargo on board shall depart from any Port without being duly cleared, the Master shall forfeit the Sum...
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