[If any goods shall have been reported inwards for exportation in such ship they Cleared Dated must be so stated.] Examined (Signed) Officer of Customs. I do declare that the above content is a true account of all goods shipped or intended to be shipped on board the above mentioned ship and correct in all other particulars. (Signed) TENTH SCHEDULE. TRANSIRE. Collector. Master. Section 115. Section 127. Preamble. An Act to repeal certain clauses of the "Customs Act WH HEREAS by the one hundred and twenty-third and one hundred and twenty-fourth sections of the "Customs Act 1857" the provisions relating to the "coasting trade" have been extended to vessels trading to or from any port of Victoria or of Vide 16 & 17 Vict. any other Australasian colony: And whereas such extension is an c. 107 s. 328. Repeal of the 123rd and 124th sections of the Act. Definition of infringement of the power vested by the Imperial Parliament in Her Majesty in Council: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows: 1. The one hundred and twenty-third and one hundred and twenty-fourth sections() of the said recited Act shall be and the same are respectively hereby repealed. 2. All trade by sea from any one port of the colony to any coasting trade. other port thereof shall be deemed to be a coasting trade, and all ships while employed therein shall be deemed to be coasting ships within the meaning of the said Act and every other Act relating to the customs. Coasting ship confined to coasting voyage. 3. If any goods shall be taken into or put out of any coasting ship at sea or if any coasting ship shall deviate from her voyage unless forced by unavoidable circumstances, the master of such ship shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds. (a) The repeal of these sections was required by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in a despatch, dated 13 May 1858, covering a report of the Commissioners of Trade and Customs, and observations of the Board of Trade, on the subject of these enactments. An Act to authorise the Exportation from the BE E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say) :— duce of Victoria 1. No duty shall be levied or collected upon any gold not being Gold not the prothe produce of the colony of Victoria brought by sea from any place to be free of duty. beyond the said colony to any port in the said colony for exportation from the said colony and which shall be duly entered upon the manifest of the vessel in which it shall be so brought. Provided the provisions hereinafter contained shall be complied with. 2. The consignee or person in possession of any such gold shall Entry to be immediately after the arrival of the vessel in which it shall be passed. brought pass a transhipping entry therefor, and shall make a declaration in the form contained in the Schedule to this Act, and schedule. shall deposit such gold until it shall be removed for exportation in such place and in such manner as shall be prescribed by the regulations hereinafter mentioned. purpose of being 3. It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Trade and Customs Gold may be reto permit any gold so brought as aforesaid into the said colony to be moved for the removed for the purpose of being assayed, provided the consignee assayed. or person in possession thereof shall enter into a bond with two sufficient sureties in the amount of half-a-crown for every ounce, conditioned that such gold shall immediately after being assayed be returned to the place appointed for its deposit and shall be exported from the said colony. make regulations. 4. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to Governor may time to make such regulations as shall be necessary for prescribing the places and the manner in which gold so brought into the said No. 142. 25 VICTORIA, Colony shall be deposited, the conditions upon which it may be removed for the purpose of being assayed, the manner in which it shall be removed for exportation, and for imposing any conditions in order to prevent any frauds upon the revenue in respect of any gold so brought into the said colony, and for the more effectually carrying out the provisions of this Act with respect to such gold as last aforesaid. Penalties. Indemnity in respect of past ex of Victoria. 5. Any person who shall falsely make any declaration, or who shall fraudulently evade or attempt to evade any of the provisions of this Act, or who shall infringe any of the regulations to be made as hereinbefore mentioned, shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty pounds; and the gold in respect of which such offence shall have been committed shall be forfeited. 6. No proceedings of any nature or kind whatsoever shall be portation of gold commenced or taken against any persons who before the passing of not the produce this Act shall have exported or advised authorised or been privy to the exportation of any gold not being the produce of the said colony brought by sea from any place beyond the said colony to any port in the said colony for or by reason of such persons not having paid the duty on such gold; nor shall any such gold be forfeited. |