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exported goods is a specification which may be presented six

days after the exporting vessel has cleared.)

(b) The Board of Trade licence is endorsed by the

Customs Officer with the nature and quantity of the goods

loaded and is then returned to the shipper (or where the

licence so requires to the Board of Trade) until such time.

as the quantity authorised under the licence has been shipped.

It is then marked "Exhausted" and retained in the Department,

or, if the terms of the licence so require, returned to the

Board of Trade.

(c) The packages are identified by the Customs Export

Officer prior to shipment. A special watch is kept on the

loading of goods into ships bound for Italy to see that arms

do not go on board. An occasional test examination of other

export goods is made with a view to seeing that no arms are

shipped without pre-entry.

Admiralty Control over Vessels of War.

24. The control of the building, equipping, and despatching

of vessels of war under the Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870, and

the Treaties of Washington Act, 1922, is carried out by the

Admiralty, but naval armaments exported separately from a

vessel of war are subject to the licensing procedure outlined

above.

Foreign Office Action.

25. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is concerned in two ways with the issue of licences for the export of war

material.

(1) He receives a notification from the Board of Trade

that a licence has been applied for, and advises that the

licence should or should not be issued.

(2) In exceptional circumstances he may inform the Board

of Trade that the export of arms to a particular country or

region is undesirable.

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