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63 Entry outwards of exporting ships.
(1) Where a ships is to load any goods at a port for exportation ... or as stores for use on a voyage to an eventual destination outside the United Kingdom, the master of the ship shall, before any goods are taken on board that ship at that port, other than goods for exportation loaded in accordance with a stiffening order issued by the proper officer, deliver to the proper officer—
(a) an entry outwards of the ship in such form and manner and containing such particulars as the Commissioners may direct; and
(b) a certificate from the proper officer of the clearance inwards or coastwise of the ship of her last voyage with cargo; and
(c) if the ship has already loaded goods at some other port for exportation or as stores for use as aforesaid or has been cleared in ballast from some other port, the clearance outwards of the ship from that other port.
(2) If, on the arrival at any port of a ship carrying goods coastwise from one place in Great Britain to another such place, it is desired that the ship shall proceed with those goods or any of them to a place outside the United Kingdom, entry outwards shall be made of that ship (whether or not any other goods are to be loaded at that port) and of any of those goods which are duitable or restricted goods as if the goods were to be loaded for exportation at that port, but any such entry may, subject to such conditions as the Commissioners see fit to impose, be made without the goods being first discharged.
(3) A ship may, subject to subsection (4) below, be entered outwards from a port under this section notwithstanding that before departing for any place outside the United Kingdom the ship is to go to another port.
(4) A ship carrying cargo brought in that ship from some place outside Great Britain and intended to be discharged in Great Britain may only be entered outwards by virtue of subsection (3) above subject to such conditions as the Commissioners see fit to impose.
(5) If, when a ship is required by this section to be entered outwards from any port, any goods are taken on board that ship at that port, except in accordance with such a stiffening order as is mentioned in subsection (1) above, before the ship is so entered, the goods shall be liable to forfeiture and the master of the ship shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 3 on the standard scale.
(6) Where goods are taken on board a ship as mentioned in subsection (5) above or made waterborne for that purpose with fraudulent intent, any person concerned therein with knowledge of that intent may be detained and shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to a penalty of the prescribed sum£20,000 or of three times the value of the goods, whichever is the greater, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both; or
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a penalty of any amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years, or to both.
(7) References in this section to a destination or place outside the United Kingdom or Great Britain ... do not include references to a destination or place in the Isle of Man and in subsections (2) and (4) above references to a place in Great Britain and to discharge in Great Britain include references to a place in the Isle of Man and to discharge in the Island.
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63 Entry outwards of exporting ships.
(1) Where a ships is to load any goods at a port for exportation ... or as stores for use on a voyage to an eventual destination outside the United Kingdom, the master of the ship shall, before any goods are taken on board that ship at that port, other than goods for exportation loaded in accordance with a stiffening order issued by the proper officer, deliver to the proper officer—
(a) an entry outwards of the ship in such form and manner and containing such particulars as the Commissioners may direct; and
(b) a certificate from the proper officer of the clearance inwards or coastwise of the ship of her last voyage with cargo; and
(c) if the ship has already loaded goods at some other port for exportation or as stores for use as aforesaid or has been cleared in ballast from some other port, the clearance outwards of the ship from that other port.
(2) If, on the arrival at any port of a ship carrying goods coastwise from one place in Great Britain to another such place, it is desired that the ship shall proceed with those goods or any of them to a place outside the United Kingdom, entry outwards shall be made of that ship (whether or not any other goods are to be loaded at that port) and of any of those goods which are duitable or restricted goods as if the goods were to be loaded for exportation at that port, but any such entry may, subject to such conditions as the Commissioners see fit to impose, be made without the goods being first discharged.
(3) A ship may, subject to subsection (4) below, be entered outwards from a port under this section notwithstanding that before departing for any place outside the United Kingdom the ship is to go to another port.
(4) A ship carrying cargo brought in that ship from some place outside Great Britain and intended to be discharged in Great Britain may only be entered outwards by virtue of subsection (3) above subject to such conditions as the Commissioners see fit to impose.
(5) If, when a ship is required by this section to be entered outwards from any port, any goods are taken on board that ship at that port, except in accordance with such a stiffening order as is mentioned in subsection (1) above, before the ship is so entered, the goods shall be liable to forfeiture and the master of the ship shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 3 on the standard scale.
(6) Where goods are taken on board a ship as mentioned in subsection (5) above or made waterborne for that purpose with fraudulent intent, any person concerned therein with knowledge of that intent may be detained and shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to a penalty of the prescribed sum£20,000 or of three times the value of the goods, whichever is the greater, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both; or
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a penalty of any amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years, or to both.
(7) References in this section to a destination or place outside the United Kingdom or Great Britain ... do not include references to a destination or place in the Isle of Man and in subsections (2) and (4) above references to a place in Great Britain and to discharge in Great Britain include references to a place in the Isle of Man and to discharge in the Island.
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