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# Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1883

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1883
1883 c.10
An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, to alter other Duties, and to amend the Laws relating to Customs and Inland Revenue.
[31st May 1883]

## 1 Short title. {#section-1}

This Act may be cited as the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1883.

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## 4 Alteration of date of expiration of certain game licences. {#section-4}

Every licence or certificate to kill game now in force, or to be taken out under the Game Licences Act, 1860, which expires, or would expire, under the provisions of that Act on the fifth day of April, shall expire on the thirty-first day of July, and wherever in such provisions the fifth day of April is mentioned or referred to, the same shall be read as if the thirty-first day of July had been therein inserted in lieu of the said fifth day of April.

## 5 Game licences for short periods. {#section-5}

A licence or certificate to kill game may be taken out under the provisions of the Game Licences Act, 1860, for a continuous period of fourteen days to be specified in such licence or certificate, and there shall be granted and paid thereon the duty of two pounds.

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