Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, Amendment Act, 1887
CUSTOMS CONSOLIDATION ACT, 1876, AMENDMENT ACT 1887 | ||
CHAPTER VII. | ||
An Act to amend the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 . | ||
[23rd May 1887.] | ||
WHERAS it is right and expedient that proviso herein after contained should be added to the one hundred and seventy-ninth section of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 : | ||
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by rhe authority of the same, as follows: | ||
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Amendment of s. 179 of Customs Consolidation Act, 1876. |
1. The words following shall be added to the said section, and shall be taken and read as part of the same, viz.:—“And provided also, that no person shall be liable to conviction under this section unless there shall be reasonable cuase to believe that such person was concerned in, or privy to, the illegal act or thing proved to have been commmitted.” | |
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Short title. |
2. This Act may be cited as the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, Amendment Act, 1887. |