Revenue Act 1883

2 Amendment of s. 42 of 39 & 40 Vict. c.36

The following enactments shall, on and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, have effect as if they were contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, in substitution for the portion of that section repealed by this Act, that is to say—

(1) (a) Articles of foreign manufacture not imported by, or for, but bearing the name and address or name and trademark of a manufacturer of such articles resident, or having a place of business in the United Kingdom.

(b) Articles of foreign manufacture bearing, either alone or in conjunction with other names or words, the name of a part of, or a place in, the United Kingdom, which name in the opinion of the Commissioners of Customs has been placed upon such articles in order to impart to them a special character of British manufacture.

(2) The proprietary right of a manufacturer in any name or mark on any articles of foreign manufacture shall be proved or evidenced in such, manner and upon such conditions as the Commissioners of Customs shall prescribe.

(3) Articles bearing the name of a place which, would render them subject to prohibition under this section shall not be admissible by reason of there being another place of the same name out of the United Kingdom.

(4) Names, addresses, and marks on boxes, cases, cards, or other things in which or attached to which articles of foreign manufacture are imported, shall be deemed to be borne by the articles themselves.

(5) The Commissioners of Customs in administering this section, whether in the exercise of any discretion or opinion or otherwise, shall act under the control of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

(6) In this section the word " name " as applied to a manufacturer shall include any abbreviation or imitation of a name; and the word " Manufacturer " shall include a dealer, and a manufacturing or trading company having a place of business in the United Kingdom.