Customs Consolidation Act 1876

126 Victualling bill for stores. Stores illegally relanded, forfeited, and penalty 100l.

The master of every ship of the burden of forty tons or upwards departing from any port in the United Kingdom upon a voyage to parts beyond the seas shall, upon due authority and request made by him, and upon such terms and conditions as the Commissioners of Customs may direct, receive from the export officer an order for the shipment of such stores as may be required and allowed by the collector or other proper officer for the use of such ship, with reference to the number of the crew and passengers on board and the probable duration of the voyage on which she is about to depart; and every such request shall be made in such form and manner as the collector or other proper officer shall require, and shall be signed by the master or owner of the vessel ; and the master, or his agent duly authorised by him in writing for that purpose, shall deliver to the export officer the stores content, containing the particulars of such stores, and shall make out and subscribe thereon, in the presence of the proper officer, a declaration that the contents thereof are true, and that all the requirements of the Merchant Shipping Acts respecting outward-bound ships have been complied with, and also an account of the stores so shipped, together with any other stores then already on board, and the latter, when signed by the export officer and countersigned by the collector or other proper officer, shall be the victualling bill; and no stores shall be shipped for the use of any ship, nor shall any articles taken on board any ship be deemed to be stores, except such as shall be borne upon such victualling bill; and if any such stores shall be re-landed at any place in the United Kingdom (without the sanction of the proper officers of Customs), the same shall be forfeited, and the master and owner of the ship shall each be liable to a penalty of treble the value of such stores, or one hundred pounds, at the election of the Commissioners.