CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935 — Page 85

Section 8.

ANTEX A.

EXTRACTS FROM ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.

Customs and Inland Revenue Act. 1897.

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The following goods may by proclamation or Order in

Council be prohibited either to be exported or carried

coastwise: Arms, ammunition and gunpowder, military and

naval stores, and any articles which Her Majesty shall judge

capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing

the quantity of military or naval stores, provisions, or any

sort of victual which may be used as food for man; and if

any socas so prohibited shall be exported or brought to any

quay or other place to be shipped for exportation from the

United Kingdom or carried coastwise, or be waterborne to be

so exported or carried, they shall be forfeited, and the

exporter or his agent or the shipper of any such goods shall

be liable to the penalty of one hundred pounds.

Section 1.

Section 2.

Exportation of Arms Act, 1900.

It shall be lawful for Her Majesty by proclamation to

prohibit the exportation of all or any of the following

articles, namely; Arms, ammunition, military and naval

stores, and any article which Her Majesty shall judge

capable of being converted into or nade useful in increasing

the quantity of arms, ammunition, or military or naval stores,

to any country or place therein named, whenevr Her Majesty

shall judge such prohibition to be expedient, in order to

prevent such arms, ammunition, military or naval stores being

used against Her Majesty's subjects or forces, or against

any forces engaged or which may be engaged in military or

naval operations in co-operation with Her Majesty's forces.

This Act shall be read as one with the Customs and

Inland Revenue Act, 1879, and all the provisions of that Act,

so far as they are applicable to the exportation of

prohibited goods, shall apply as if they were embodied in

this Act, and as if section 1 of this Act were part of

section 8 of that Act.

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