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Customs and Excise Management Act 1979

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As published

42 Power to regulate unloading, removal, etc. of imported goods.

(1) The Commissioners may make regulations— (a) prescribing the procedure to be followed by a ship arriving at a port, an aircraft arriving at a regulated aerodrome, any other vehicle entering the United Kingdom or a person conveying goods into the United Kingdom by land; (b) regulating the unloading, landing, movement and removal of goods on their importation; and different regulations may be made with respect to importation by sea, air or land respectively. (2) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any regulation made under this section or with any direction given by the Commissioners or the proper officer in pursuance of any such regulation, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 3 on the standard scale and any goods in respect of which the offence was committed shall be liable to forfeiture. (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Your change, as a redline

42 Power to regulate unloading, removal, etc. of imported goods.

(1) The Commissioners may make regulations— (a) prescribing the procedure to be followed by a ship arriving at a port, an aircraft arriving at a regulated aerodrome, any other vehicle entering the United Kingdom or a person conveying goods into the United Kingdom by land; (b) regulating the unloading, landing, movement and removal of goods on their importation; and different regulations may be made with respect to importation by sea, air or land respectively. (2) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any regulation made under this section or with any direction given by the Commissioners or the proper officer in pursuance of any such regulation, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 3 on the standard scale and any goods in respect of which the offence was committed shall be liable to forfeiture. (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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