Customs (Exportation Restriction) Act, 1914

CUSTOMS (EXPORTATION RESTRICTION) ACT 1914

CHAPTER 2.

An Act to amend section one of the Exportation of Arms Act, 1900. [27th November 1914.]

BE it enacted by the King'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 the authority of the same, as follows :

Extension of 63 & 64 Vict. c. 44.

1. Section one of the Exportation of Arms Act, 1900 (which enables the exportation of certain articles to any country or place named in the proclamation to be prohibited), shall have effect whilst a state of war in which His Majesty is engaged exists as if, in addition to the articles therein mentioned, there were included all other articles of every description.

Power to vary a proclamation.

2. Any proclamation made under the said section may, whether the proclamation was made before or after the passing of this Act, be varied or added to whilst a state of war exists by an order made by the Lords of the Council on the recommendation of the Board of Trade.

Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as the Customs (Exportation Restriction) Act, 1914.