Exportation of Arms Act, 1900

EXPORTATION OF ARMS ACT 1900

CHAPTER XLIV

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Exportation of Arms, Ammunition, and Military and Naval Stores. [6th August 1900.]

Power to prohibit exportation of arms, &c.

1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty by proclamation to prohibit the exportation of all or any of the following articles, namely: arms, ammunition, military and naval stores, and any article which Her Majesty shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of arms, ammunition, or military or naval stores, to any country or place therein named, whenever Her Majesty shall judge such prohibition to be expedient in order to prevent such arms, ammunition, military or naval stores, being used against Her Majesty’s subjects or forces, or against any forces engaged or which may be engaged in military or naval operations in co-operation with Her Majesty’s forces.

Construction and short title.

42 & 43 Vict. c. 21.

2.(1) This Act shall be read as one with the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879, and all the provisions of that Act, so far as they are applicable to the exportation of prohibited goods, shall apply as if they were embodied in this Act, and as if section one of this Act were part of [1] section eight of that Act.

(2) This Act may be cited as the Exportation of Arms Act, 1900.

[1 S. 8 is by 42 & 43 Vict. c. 21, s. 14, incorporated in 39 & 40 Vict. c. 36, as s. 138 thereof, which see.]