CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935 — Page 87

ANNEX B.

THE ARMS EXPORT PROHIBITION ORDER, 1931.,

At the Court at Buckingham Palace,

The 19th day of May, 1931.

Present,

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

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Whereas by Section 8 of "The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879", (a) it is provided that 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 His 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 whereas by Section 17 of the Finance Act, 1921, (b) 14 is enacted that section 8 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879, shall extend to weapons and munitions of war of ever § description and firearms not being weapons of war, and ammunition for such firearms, as it applies to the goods there-n mentioned, and that the said section, as so 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 whereas by an Order in Council dated the 13th December, 1921, (c) made in pursuance of Section 8 of "the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879", the exportation from the United Kingdom of certain articles was prohibited:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Order in Council should be revoked:

And whereas it is expedient to prohibit the exportation or shipment as ship's stores on vessels proceeding to foreign ports of the articles hereinafter enumerated:

Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:·

(1) As from the 1st June, 1931, the following articles shall be, and the same are hereby prohibited to be exported from the United Kingdom, or to be shipped as ship's stores on vessels proceeding to foreign ports, that is to say:-

(i) Carnon and other ordnance and component parts

thereof;

(ii) Carriages and mountings and accessories for

mountings for canno. and other ordnance and component parts thereof;

(iii) Cartridges, charges of all kinds, and component

parts thereof;

(iv) Explosives of every description;

(v) Firearms of every description and component

parts thereof;

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