MANAGEMENT

As to the collection and management of duties of Customs, drawbacks, and allowances.

27 Customs duties, &c. payable to Exchequer account of Bank of England to be received under such regulations as the Treasury shall prescribe.
All Customs duties and other public moneys payable to the Exchequer account at the Bank of England shall be received to the credit of such account by the Governor and Company of the said Bank, under such regulations and directions as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall from time to time prescribe; and the specifications or statements of particulars required by an Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter fifteen, intituled "An Act to " regulate the office of the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at " Westminster," to be delivered to the cashier or other officer of the Bank of England by the person paying in any such money, shall be required only in such cases, and shall be signed and issued by such person, as the said Commissioners shall from time to time direct; and the acquittances for all payments made to the account of the Exchequer at the Bank of England shall be made out in such form and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the said Commissioners; and such acquittances shall have in all respects the same force and validity in law as the acquittances heretofore given by the Comptroller of the Exchequer by virtue of the ninth section of the said recited Act of the fourth and fifth years of the reign of King William the Fourth; and the several orders, rules, and .regulations which may be issued under the authority of this Act by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, as relating to such specifications and acquittances as aforesaid, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within six weeks after the issue of such orders, rules, and regulations, if Parliament shall be sitting, or if not sitting, then within six weeks next immediately after the re-assembling of Parliament.