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52 Meaning for this Part of “dutiable or restricted goods”.U.K.
[(1)]For the purposes of this Part of this Act “dutiable or restricted goods” are goods of the following descriptions, that is to say—
(a)[goods from an excise warehouse or goods which have been declared for a storage procedure;]
(b)transit goods;
(c)any other goods chargeable with any duty which has not been paid [or goods which have been declared for an authorised use procedure or temporary admission procedure];
(d)drawback goods [or goods otherwise eligible for remission, repayment or refund of duty on their export];
(e)goods with respect to the exportation of which any restriction is for the time being in force under or by virtue of any enactment;
(f)any goods required by or under any provision of this Act other than a provision of this Part or by or under a provision of any other Act to be entered before exportation or before shipment for exportation or as stores.
[(g)goods incorporating or resulting from the use of inward processing goods or any goods which, following a determination by the Commissioners, are to be treated for customs purposes as inward processing goods in substitution for such goods.]
[(2)In this section “inward processing goods” [means—
(a)goods declared for an inward processing procedure, or
(b)goods] imported for the purpose of being worked on, processed or used in any process or repaired and on the importation of which relief from ... agricultural levy was given on condition that goods incorporating or resulting from the use of them would be exported outside the [European Union]; and in this subsection “agricultural levy” means any tax or charge, not being a customs duty, provided for under the common agricultural policy or under any special arrangements which, pursuant to [Article 352 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union] are applicable to goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products.]
[52ABreach of applicable export provisions etcU.K.
(1)This section applies to any goods the export of which is required to be made in accordance with the applicable export provisions.
(2)If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any of the requirements—
(a)the person is guilty of an offence, and
(b)the goods are liable to forfeiture.
(3)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) in a case where the goods are dutiable or restricted goods is liable on summary conviction to a penalty of—
(a)£20,000, or
(b)three times the value of the goods,
whichever is the greater.
(4)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) in any other case is liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 4 on the standard scale.
(5)If—
(a)in breach of the applicable export provisions, any dutiable or restricted goods fail to be exported from the United Kingdom by the time by which they were required to be exported, and
(b)notice of the failure is not immediately given to an officer of Revenue and Customs,
the goods are (in addition to being liable to forfeiture under subsection (2)) subject to the control of an officer of Revenue and Customs as mentioned in subsection (6) even if the procedure provided for by the applicable export provisions is discharged.
(6)An officer of Revenue and Customs may—
(a)require any person to provide such information and documents to the officer as may be specified by the officer, and
(b)require the goods to be moved to, and kept in, such place as may be specified by the officer.
(7)Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with a requirement imposed under subsection (6) is liable on summary conviction to a penalty of £20,000.]
[53 Entry outwards of goods. U.K.
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(8)If any dutiable or restricted goods [which are required to be exported in accordance with the applicable export provisions] are shipped for exportation or as stores or are waterborne for such shipment [before the applicable export provisions have been complied with, and] the shipping or making waterborne is done with fraudulent intent any person concerned therein with knowledge of that intent shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and may be detained.
(9)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (8) above shall be liable—
(a)on summary conviction, to a penalty of [the prescribed sum][£20,000] or of three times the value of the goods, whichever is the greater, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both; or
(b)on conviction on indictment, to a penalty of any amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding [[14] years] or to both.
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54 Acceptance of incomplete entry.U.K.
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55 Correction and cancellation of entry.U.K.
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56 Failure to export. U.K.
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57 Delivery of entry by owner of exporting ship etc.U.K.
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58 Simplified clearance procedure.U.K.
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58A Local export control. U.K.
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58B Provisions supplementary to ss. 58 and 58A. U.K.
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58C Pipe-lines and export of ships and aircraft.U.K.
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58D Operative date for Community purposes. U.K.
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58E Authentication of Community customs documents. U.K.
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59 Restrictions on putting export goods alongside for loading.U.K.
(1)This section applies to all goods which are required [to be exported in accordance with the applicable export provisions].
(2)The Commissioners may make regulations—
(a)prohibiting, as from such date as is specified in the regulations, the putting of any goods to which this section applies alongside any [vehicle other than a road vehicle] for loading for exportation, except under a written authority in that behalf obtained in accordance with, and in such form as is specified in, the regulations; and
(b)requiring any person putting goods alongside a [vehicle other than a road vehicle] under one or more such authorities to endorse the authority or each of the authorities with such particulars as are specified in the regulations, and to deliver the endorsed authority or authorities, together with a written statement of the number of authorities delivered, to the proper officer within such period as is so specified.
(3)Regulations under subsection (2) above may make different provision for different circumstances.
(4)Without prejudice to section 3 above, subsection (2) above shall apply to the charging of goods into a pipe-line for exportation as it applies to the putting of goods alongside a ship or aircraft for loading for exportation.
(5)The Commissioners may relax any requirement imposed under subsection (2) above as they think fit in relation to any goods.
(6)Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any regulation under subsection (2) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of [level 3 on the standard scale].
(7)This section shall not come into force until such day as the Commissioners may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.
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60 Additional restrictions as to certain export goods.U.K.
(1)No person shall export any dutiable or restricted goods falling within paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 52 above, or enter any such goods for exportation, in any ship of less than 40 tons register.
[(1A)For the purposes of subsection (1), the reference to entering goods for exportation is to the doing of anything required to be done under provision made by or under Part 1 of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 in connection with the export of the goods.]
(2)Subsection (1) above shall not apply to hovercraft, but dutiable or restricted goods shall only be exported in a hovercraft it it is of a class or description for the time being approved by the Commissioners and subject to such conditions and restrictions as they may impose.
(3)Any goods shipped or entered contrary to subsection (1) or (2) above shall be liable to forfeiture.
(4)A person contravening or failing to comply with subsection (2) above, or with any condition or restriction imposed thereunder, shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of three times the value of the goods or [level 3 on the standard scale], whichever is the greater.
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[60APower to make regulations about storesU.K.
(1)The Commissioners may by regulations make provision in relation to goods for use on a [ship, aircraft or railway vehicle] as stores.
(2)The provision that may be made by regulations under subsection (1) includes—
(a)provision permitting, in specified circumstances, goods to be shipped or carried as stores without payment of duty or on drawback;
(b)provision requiring authorisation to be obtained, in specified circumstances, for goods to be shipped or carried as stores as mentioned in paragraph (a) above;
(c)provision about obtaining such authorisation;
(d)provision enabling such authorisation to be withdrawn in specified circumstances;
(e)provision for the supply, shipping or carriage of goods as stores as mentioned in paragraph (a) above to be subject to specified conditions or restrictions;
(f)provision as to any procedure to be followed in supplying goods to be shipped or carried as stores as mentioned in paragraph (a) above.
(3)Regulations made by virtue of subsection (2)(a) may include—
(a)provision requiring duty to be paid on goods shipped or carried as stores without payment of duty or on drawback where those goods are—
(i)consumed on a journey of a specified description; or
(ii)consumed in specified circumstances in port;
(b)provision as to the persons by whom such duty is payable;
(c)provision about the way in which, and the time at which, such duty is to be paid; and
(d)provision for goods, in specified circumstances, to be treated as having been consumed on a journey or in port.
(4)The provision that may be made by regulations under this section includes—
(a)different provision for different cases; and
(b)incidental, supplemental, consequential or transitional provision or savings.
(5)In this section “specified” means—
(a)specified in regulations made under this section; or
(b)specified by the Commissioners under such regulations.]
[60BFailure to comply with regulations under section 60AU.K.
(1)This section applies if a person fails to comply with—
(a)any provision made by or under regulations under section 60A; or
(b)any condition or restriction imposed under such regulations.
(2)The person's failure to comply shall attract a penalty under section 9 of the Finance Act 1994 (civil penalties) (but see subsection (4)).
(3)Any goods in respect of which the person fails to comply with the provision, condition or restriction are liable to forfeiture.
(4)Subsection (2) does not apply if, as a result of the failure, the person is liable to pay a penalty under Schedule 55 to the Finance Act 2009 (penalty for failure to make returns etc) or Schedule 56 to that Act (penalty for failure to make payments on time).]
61[Supplementary provision relating to stores.]U.K.
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(5)If any goods shipped or carried as stores [without payment of duty] are without the authority of the proper officer landed or unloaded at any place in the United Kingdom—
(a)the goods shall be liable to forfeiture; and
(b)[the vehicle operator and the owner of the ship, aircraft or railway vehicle] shall each be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of three times the value of the goods or [level 3 on the standard scale], whichever is the greater.
[(5A)But subsection (5) above does not apply where the goods are entered for warehousing in accordance with section 39.]
(6)The proper officer may lock up, mark, seal or otherwise secure any goods entered, shipped or carried as stores ... as mentioned in subsection (5) above or any place or container in which such goods are kept or held.
(7)If any [ship, aircraft or railway vehicle] which has departed from [the United Kingdom] carrying stores fails to reach the destination for which it was [cleared for departure] and returns to any place within the United Kingdom, then—
(a)if the failure was not due to stress of weather, mechanical defect or any other unavoidable cause and any deficiency is discovered in the said goods; or
(b)if the failure was due to any such cause as is mentioned in paragraph (a) above and any deficiency is discovered in the said goods which, in the opinion of the Commissioners, exceeds the quantity which might fairly have been consumed having regard to the length of time between the [vehicle’s] departure and return as aforesaid,
[the vehicle operator] shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of [level 2 on the standard scale], and shall also pay on the deficiency or, as the case may be, on the excess deficiency any duty chargeable on the importation of such goods.
[(7A)No amount of excise duty shall be payable under subsection (7) above unless the Commissioners have assessed that amount as being excise duty due from [the vehicle operator] and notified him or his representative accordingly.]
(8)Any duty [, other than excise duty,]payable under subsection (7) above shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt.
[(8A)An amount of excise duty assessed as being due under subsection (7A) above shall, unless, or except to the extent that, the assessment has subsequently been withdrawn or reduced and subject to any appeal under section 16 of the Finance Act 1994, be recoverable summarily as a civil debt.]
[(9)References in this section to a country or destination outside the United Kingdom do not include references to, or a destination in, the Isle of Man; and subsection (5) above applies whether the goods were shipped in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man.]
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62 Information, documentation, etc. as to export goods.U.K.
(1)The Commissioners may give directions under this subsection imposing on persons specified in the directions requirements as to the giving of information with respect to, or the furnishing of documents in connection with, goods exported, or intended to be exported, in any such vehicle or container as is specified in the directions, or by such other means, or in accordance with any such commercial procedure, as is so specified.
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This subsection shall not come into force until such day as the Commissioners may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.
(3)The Commissioners may relax any requirement imposed under subsection (1) ... above as they think fit in relation to any goods.
(4)Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any direction given under subsection (1) ... above shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of [level 3 on the standard scale].
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