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The Foreign Prison-made Goods Act 1897 (Amendment) Regulations 1988

S.I. 1988/1772 · Made 17 October 1988

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CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

Made 17th October 1988

Laid before Parliament 20th October 1988

Coming into force 10th November 1988

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designatedf1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2 in relation to the control of the import and export of goods, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1983/1706.

f2

1972 c. 68.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Foreign Prison-made Goods Act 1897:
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Foreign Prison-made Goods Act 1897 (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 10th November 1988.

2Amendment of the Foreign Prison-made Goods Act 1897:

The Foreign Prison-made Goods Act 1897f1 shall be amended as follows: —

(a)

by adding at the end of section 1 the following words “or originating or in free circulation in another member State”;

(b)

by the insertion after section 1 of the following section:—

“Interpretation. 1A. Any question under section 1 whether goods originate or are in free circulation in another member State shall be determined in accordance with the Treaties”.

Signature

Alan Clark

Minister for Trade,

Department of Trade and Industry

17th October 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Regulations amend the Foreign Prison-made Goods Act 1897 to accord with Article 30 of the EEC Treaty. Article 30 prohibits quantitative restrictions on imports of goods from other Member States and all measures having equivalent effect. Prison-made goods originating or in free circulation in another Member State are expressly removed from the prohibition in section 1 of the 1897 Act.