Private Bonded Warehouses Act 1883 (WA)

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ANNO QUADRAGESIMO SEPTUM()

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No. XXI.

AN ACT to authorise the establishment of Private Warehouses for Goods subject to Customs Duties.

[ Assented to, 8th September, 1883. ]

HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the establishment and

Wsubject to the payment of Customs Duties: Be it enacted by Hisregulation of Private Warehouses for the securing of Goods

Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

Executive Council, by license under his hand to be published in the may license privateGovernor in Council 1. IT shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the

Government Gazette, from time to time to appoint such private bonded warehouses.

warehouses or places of security in which goods subject to Customs duties may be kept and secured without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, and subject to such terms and conditions as to the Governor as aforesaid may seem to be fit and proper.

IT shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make and for the amount of the annual or other fee to be paid to the Govern- tor such warehouses.

from time to time to add to, cancel, or vary regulations providing GOVeillOr in Councilto make regulations 2.

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Private Bonded Warehouses.

ment by the owner or occupier of such warehouse; for the security to be given by such owner or occupier for the observance of the regulations for the , time being in force with respect to such ware- house; for the approval of the building in which the goods are to be warehoused, for the manner in which such warehouses shall be inspected and supervised by persons to be appointed by the Governor in that behalf; and generally for such matters and things as may be deemed to be necessary or expedient with respect to the exercise of control and supervision over or in respect to such warehouses, and for the penalties to be recoverable for any breach of any of the said regulations.

3.      THE said regulations shall be published in the Government

Regulations to be	Gazette; and the production of a copy of the Gazette containing the
published in Gazette.	same, and purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, shall be received in all Courts of Justice as evidence of such rules; and the said rules, when they shall have been made and published as aforesaid, shall have the same force and validity as if they were embodied in and formed part of this Act.

ALL penalties recoverable as aforesaid may be sued for . and Sub-Collector of Customs in any of Her Majesty's Civil Courts within the Colony ; or where the penalty does not exceed the amount of Fifty pounds, such penalty may be recovered summarily as aforesaid before any two or more Justices of the Peace, according to the provisions of the Acts hi that behalf.

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ties. Recovery of pena]- recovered in the name of the Attorney General or of a Collector or

5.     THIS Act may be cited as " The Private Bonded Ware-

Short Title. houses Act, 1883."

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

F. NAPIER BROOME, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.