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An Act to prohibit the Importation of Foreign Prison-made goods.
[6th August 1897]
[F1The importation of the following goods is prohibited]; that is to say:
Goods proved to the satisfaction of the [F2Commissioners of Customs and Excise] by evidence tendered to them to have been made or produced wholly or in part in any foreign prison, gaol, house of correction, or penitentiary, except goods in transit or not imported for the purposes of trade, or of a description not manufactured in the United Kingdom [F3or originating or in free circulation in another member State].
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2), Sch. 4 para. 12 Table Pt. I
F2Words substituted by virtue of Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2), Sch. 4 para. 1
F3Words added by S.I. 1988/1772, art. 2(a)
Any question under section 1 whether goods originate or are in free circulation in another member State shall be determined in accordance with the Treaties]
Textual Amendments
F4S. 1A inserted by S.I. 1988/1772, art. 2(b)
This Act may be cited as the Foreign Prison-made Goods Act 1897.
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