Exportation of Arms Act 1900

Exportation of Arms Act 1900[a]
Act of Parliament
coat of arms
Long titleAn Act to amend the Law relating to the Exportation of Arms, Ammunition, and Military and Naval Stores.
Citation63 & 64 Vict. c. 44
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent6 August 1900
Commencement6 August 1900[b]
Repealed2 May 1986
Other legislation
Amended by
  • Customs (Exportation Restriction) Act 1914
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 1986
Relates to
  • Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1879
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Exportation of Arms Act 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 44) was an Act of Parliament (United Kingdom) of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, given royal assent on 6 August 1900 and repealed in 1986.

It provided that the monarch, by proclamation, had the power to prohibit the export of certain classes of military equipment, or "any article ... capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity" of such equipment, when it was necessary to prevent the equipment being used against British or allied citizens or military forces.

The material so proclaimed was to be considered "prohibited goods" under the Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 21), and dealt with as though it were listed in section 8 of that Act.

Subsequent developments

The whole act act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part IV of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986, which came into force on 2 May 1986.[1]

Notes

References

  • The public general acts passed in the sixty-third and sixty-third and sixty-fourth years of the reign of her majesty Queen Victoria. London: printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1900.
  • Chronological table of the statutes; HMSO, London. 1993.
  1. ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1986 c. 12