# Import, Export and Customs Powers (Defence) Act 1939, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

An Act to provide for controlling the importation, exportation and carriage coastwise of goods and the shipment of goods as ships’ stores; to provide for facilitating the enforcement of the law relating to the matters aforesaid and the law relating to trading with the enemy; and to provide for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[1st September 1939]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/2-3/69/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/import-export-and-customs-powers-defence-act-1939/introduction
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