Gunpowder Export Restriction Act of 1870 No 11a (NSW)

No. XV.

An Act to regulate t he Expor t of Gunpowder

and Warl ike Stores. [6th May, 1870.]

Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the	BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative
authority of the same as follows :—
1. No vessel having Gunpowder or Warlike Stores on board in greater quantity than may in the opinion of the Collector or Chief Officer of Customs at the port of clearance be required for the ordinary use and service of such vessel or of any passenger proceeding thereby shall be cleared at any port in this Colony without a license under the hand of the Governor or of the Colonial Treasurer And any Gunpowder or Warlike Stores shipped contrary to this enactment shall be forfeited to Her Majesty.
2. Before any Gunpowder or Warlike Stores shall be shipped under any such license the shipper thereof shall state in writing the name of the place at which it is intended that the same shall be landed and shall give security by bond in the sum of five hundred pounds or treble the amount of the value of the Gunpowder or Warlike Stores so shipped if such value exceed that amount with two sufficient sureties being: resident householders to the satisfaction of the said Collector or Chief Officer at the port of clearance for landing such Gunpowder or Warlike Stores at the place for which they are declared to be shipped and the proof of such landing shall lie upon the shipper by producing to the said Collector or other Chief Officer a certificate under the hand of the Collector or other Chief Officer of Customs Consul or other public officer at the place where landed or other satisfactory proof within reasonable time and on failure thereof the shipper shall incur a penalty of five hundred pounds to be recovered at the suit of such first-mentioned Collector or other Chief Officer or of Her Majesty's Attorney General And in default of payment of such penalty by such shipper the said Collector Chief Officer or Attorney General may put the said bond in suit and recover upon the same And every sum so recovered shall be paid to the Colonial Treasurer and be by him carried over to the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
3. The Colonial Treasurer the Collector of Customs and all persons acting under their authority are hereby indemnified for any orders which they may respectively have given or obeyed for limiting the exportation of Gunpowder and Warlike Stores as aforesaid between the twenty-second day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight on which day the Act of Council twenty-eighth Victoria number four expired and the passing of this Act.
4. This Act shall continue in force for three years after the passing thereof and may be cited as the " Gunpowder Export Restriction Act of 1870."

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