Bank of England Act 1696

VII. Additional Duties on Goods and Merchandizes, by 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 4. continued until 1st Aug. 1706.

W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 4; (Exception) continued until 1st Aug. 1706; 7 & 8 W. III. c. 10. continued until 1st Aug. 1706.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several additional and other Rates Impositions Duties and Charges upon the several sorts of Goods and Merchandizes granted by and Act made in the Second Yeare of their said Majesties Reigne (intituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certaine Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandizes to be imported after the Five and twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred and ninety) and which thereby and by several other Acts afterwards passed were to have Continuance and are to continue until the Nine and twentieth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and one shall be further continued from the Eight and twentieth Day of September One thousand seven hundred and one until the said First Day of August which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & six and no longer And that the said Act made in the Second Yeare of their said Majesties Reigne concerning East India Goods and other Things therein charged and all Powers Provisions Penalties Articles & Clauses therein contained shall continue and be of full Force and Effect until the said First Day of August One thousand seven hundred and six and shall be applied practised and executed for the raising levying collecting answering & paying the said respective Duties hereby continued according to the Tenour and Intent of this present Act as fully to all Intents and Purposes as if the said last mentioned Act and all and every the Clauses Matters and Things therein contained had been again repeated and enacted particularly except onely as to such Part of the said Acts concerning the said Impositions on Wines Vinegar Tobacco East-India Goods and other Merchandizes imported touching which other Provisions or Alterations are made by any Act or Acts of Parliament now in being which other Provisions or Alterations are to be observed and to continue dureing the Continuance of this Act and the said Act intituled An Act for continuing several Duties granted by former Acts upon Wine and Vinegar and upon Tobacco and East India Goods and other Merchandizes imported for carrying on the Warr against France and every Article Clause Matter and Thing therein contained for the raising levying securing answering and paying the Impositions & Duties on the Merchandizes and Co[m]modities thereby charged and which are by this Act continued shall be of full Force and Effect until the said First Day of August One thousand seven hundred and six.