Customs Act 1864 (SA)

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ANNO VICESIMQ SEPTIMO ET VICESIMO OCTAVO

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D. 1864.

[*Assented to, 9th December, 1864.1

4 REAS it is csgedient to nmeild the Laws of Customs iu Preamble.

in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and W"" South Austmlia-Be it tllerefore Enacted, by the Governor-

cousent of the Lr6islative Council and I-Ionse of Assembly of the

said Proviuce, in tlus present Paxliament assembled, as follows:

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The Custolns Consolidation .\et,

l86 3," is hereby repealed, Repeal of A C ~.

excepting always i11 so far as the said Act may repeal any former

Acts or Ordinances, or m y part thereof, and excepting so far as

* relates to anything lawfully done before the cornluenceinent of this

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Act, and excepting so far as may be necessary to enable an]- punishment to be inflicted or penalty enforced for anything contrary to the provisioils of the said Act, or of the Acts or Ordinances

thereby repealed, or either of them.

2. This Act slrall be divided into the following parts, that is to say-

The First Division, relntiug to the construction and interpretation of Firat division.

the terms used; the appointment of officers and clerks; the observaucc of holidays; the nppointincnt of ports, wharfs,

quays, lsndiag-places; and tlic jurisdiction of this S c t:

The Second Division, relating to tlle licensillg of agents, guagew, second iiiuision.

and lighters for thc ~oi~vcymicc

of dutiable goods:

The Third Division, relating to t h appointment of boarding Thirddivision.

stations, signals, and the regulations to be observed on report-

ing ships inwards, the production of n.mnifests, hours and

places

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places for landing, and the sizes of packitges iu which certain

dutiable goods Inay be imported:

Fourth division.

The Fourth Division, relating to the collection of the revenue, the valuation of ad aalorenz goods, the abatement of duty on damaged goods, the granting of repayments, and drawbacks, the entry and landing of goods for public purposes:

Fifth division.

The Fifth Division, relating to the appointment of bonded aiid

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baggage warehouses, and the regulations to be observed in

the illanagement of boiided and baggage warehouses:

Sixth division.

The Sixth Division, relating to the bonding and clearance of goods, either for home consum y tion, or exportation, or removal coast - wise; the deficiency or loss on bonded goods; the destruction of goods not worth the dnty; the supply of stores to ships; the sale of goods in bonded and baggage warehouses, alld tlie praeticc to be observed in the regnnging or reweighing goods:

Sewnth division.

The Seventh Division, relating to the regulations to be observed

~utwards,"

and, the timc aud places ibr the shipment of goods

for eslror tation:

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Eighth d i d s i ~ n.

The Eiglitli Division, relating to tlle regulations to be obscrved

coastwise:

Xinth division.

The Ninth Division, relating to general regulations, tlle administm- tiou of oaths and declarations; the penalties for false statcmeuts or falsifying doculucnts;…

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