{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-management-act-1979/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-management-act-1979/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/2",
  "legislation_title": "Customs and Excise Management Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-management-act-1979",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Entry of surplus stores.",
  "text": "(A1) This section applies only for excise duty purposes.\n(1) Surplus stores of any ship, aircraft or railway vehicle—\n(a) may remain on board the ship, aircraft or railway vehicle without payment of duty; or\n(b) may be entered for warehousing, notwithstanding that they could not lawfully be imported as merchandise.\nThis is subject to subsection (2) below.\n(2) Goods entered for warehousing by virtue of subsection (1)(b) above shall not, except with the sanction of the Commissioners, be further entered, or be removed from the warehouse, otherwise than for use as stores.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 39(A1) inserted (13.9.2018 for specified purposes, 31.12.2020 in so far as not already in force) by Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 (c. 22), s. 57(1)(a), Sch. 7 para. 33 (as substituted by The Taxation Cross-border Trade (Special Procedures Supplementary and General Provision etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1439), regs. 1(3)(c), 5(3) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2020/1449, reg. 3 and 2020 c. 26, Sch. 2 para. 7(7)-(9)); S.I. 2020/1642, reg. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 39(1) substituted (1.4.2015) by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), Sch. 21 paras. 2, 10; S.I. 2015/812, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 39(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by 2018 c. 22, Sch. 7 para. 33(b) (as substituted by The Taxation Cross-border Trade (Special Procedures Supplementary and General Provision etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1439), regs. 1(3)(c), 5(3) (with savings and transitional provisions in 2020 c. 26, Sch. 7 para. 7(7)-(9)); S.I. 2020/1642, reg. 4(a))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/2/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:19:19.216576+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}