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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><PrimaryPrelims DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/19/introduction/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/aep/Cha2/12/19/introduction"><Title>Customs Act 1660<CommentaryRef Ref="c400001"/></Title><Number>1660 CHAPTER 19 12 Cha 2</Number><LongTitle>An Act to prevent Fraudes and Concealments of His Majestyes Customes and Subsidyes.</LongTitle><DateOfEnactment><DateText/></DateOfEnactment></PrimaryPrelims><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/19/body/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/aep/Cha2/12/19/body" NumberOfProvisions="3"><P1group><Title>c. 4.ante.</Title><P DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/19/paragraph/1/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/aep/Cha2/12/19/paragraph/1" id="paragraph-1"><Text><Emphasis>Persons conveying away Goods without Entry and Agreement for the Custom; Penalty.; Officer to break and enter Houses suspected.</Emphasis></Text><Text>BEE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and
Commons in this present Parliament assembled That if any person or persons at any time after the first day
of September One thousand six hundred and sixty shall cause any Goods for which Custome Subsidy or other
dutyes are due or payable by vertue of the Act passed this Parliament Entituled (A Subsidy granted to the King of
Tonnage and Poundage and other Summes of money payable upon Merchandize exported and imported) to be
landed or conveyed away without due entry therof first made, and the Customer or Collector or his Deputy agreed
with, That then and in such case upon Oath thereof made before the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons of the
Exchequer or cheife Magistrate of the Port or Place where the offence shall be committed, or the place next
adjoyning therunto, it shall be lawfull to and for the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons aforesaid or cheife
Magistrate of the Port or Place where the offence shall be commited or the Place next adjoyning therunto to issue
out a Warrant to any person or person thereby enableing him or them with the assistance of a Sheriffe Justice of
Peace or Constable to enter into any House in the day time where such Goods are suspected to be concealed, and
in case of resistance to breake open such Houses, and to seize and secure the same goods soe concealed, And
all Officers and Ministers of Justice are hereby required to be aiding and assisting therunto.</Text></P></P1group><P1group><Title>Limitation of Entry.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/19/section/II/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/aep/Cha2/12/19/section/II" id="section-II"><Pnumber PuncAfter=".">II</Pnumber><P1para><Text>Provided alwayes That noe House shall be entred by vertue of this Act unlesse it be within the space of one
moneth after the offence supposed to be commited.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group><Title>Continuance of Act.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/19/section/III/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/aep/Cha2/12/19/section/III" id="section-III"><Pnumber PuncAfter=".">III</Pnumber><P1para><Text>Provided alsoe That this Act shall continue in Force<Addition CommentaryRef="c000001" ChangeId="c000001-d000003">until</Addition> the end of the first Session of the next Parliament
and noe longer.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group><Title>Damages and Costs against false Informers.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/19/section/IV/enacted" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/aep/Cha2/12/19/section/IV" id="section-IV"><Pnumber PuncAfter=".">IV</Pnumber><P1para><Text>Provided alsoe That if the Information wherupon any House shall come to be searched shall prove to be false,
that then and in such case the party injured shall recover his full damages and costs against the Informer by
Action of Trespasse to bee therefore brought against such Informer.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c400001" Type="X"><Para><Text>Abbreviated title derived from <Emphasis>Chronological Table of the Statutes: Covering the Period from 1235 to the End of 1971</Emphasis> (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1972)</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c000001" Type="X"><Para><Text>Variant reading of the text noted in <Emphasis>The Statutes of the Realm</Emphasis> as follows: unto <Emphasis>O</Emphasis>. [<Emphasis>O.</Emphasis> refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>