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Section 17.

Finance Act, 1921.

(1) Section 8 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879 (which gives power to prohibit the exportation and carriage coastwise of certain goods), shall extend to weapons and munitions of war of every description and firearms not

being weapons of war, and ammunition for such rirearms, as

it applies to the goods ther in mentioned.

(2) The said section, as amended by this section, shall extend so as to give power to prohibit the shipment as ship's stores, whether on vessels proceeding to foreign ports or on coastwise voyages, of any of the goods to which the said

section applies, and the provision in the said section relating to a penalty shall have effect accordingly subject to the

necessary modifications.

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