An Act for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation. [5th July 1825.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the several 6 G. 4. c. 105. Laws relating to the Customs, in which it is declared, that the Laws of the Customs have become intricate by reason of the great Number of Acts relating thereto which have been passed through a long Series of Years, and that it is therefore highly expedient for the Interest of Commerce and the Ends of Justice, and also for affording Convenience and Facility to all Persons who may be subject to the Operation of those Laws, or who may be authorized to act in the Execution thereof, that all the Statutes now in force relating to the Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which they have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously the various Provisions contained in them: And whereas the Laws relating to the Encouragement of British Navigation will thereby be repealed, and it is expedient to make Provisions in lieu thereof, for the due Encouragement of British Shipping and British Seamen, after such Repeal shall have Effect; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Fifth Day of January One Commencement thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, this Act shall of Act. come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation, and shall constitute and be the Law of Navigation of Europe, enu merated Goods in British Ships, or Ships of Place, or Ships of Produce. Goods of Asia, Africa, or America, may II. AND be it further enacted, That the several Sorts of Goods herein-after enumerated, being the Produce of Europe;-(that is to say), Masts, Timber, Boards, Salt, Pitch, Tar, Tallow, Rosin, Hemp, Flax, Currants, Raisins, Figs, Prunes, Olive Oil, Corn or Grain, Pot Ashes, Wine, Sugar, Vinegar, Brandy, and Tobacco, shall not be imported into the United Kingdom, to be used therein (1), -except in British Ships (2), or in Ships of the Country (3) of which the Goods are the Produce (4), — or in Ships of the Country from which the Goods are imported. (5) - III. AND be it further enacted, That Goods, the Produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not be imported not be imported from Europe (6) into the United Kingdom, to be used therein (1), except the Goods herein-after mentioned; (that is to say), from Europe, except in certain Cases. Goods of Asia, America, may not be imported in Foreign Ships, except in certain Cases. Goods, the Produce of Places in Asia or Africa - within the Straits of Gibraltar, or of the Dominions of the Emperor of Morocco,-imported from Places in Europe within the Straits of Gibraltar: Goods, the Produce of Places within the Limits of the East India Company's Charter, which (having been imported into Gibraltar or Malta (7) in British Ships), may be imported from Gibraltar or Malta: Goods taken by way of Reprisal by British Ships: IV. AND be it further enacted, That Goods, the Produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not be imported into the United Kingdom, to be used therein (1), in Foreign Ships, unless they be the Ships of the Country in Asia, Africa or America, of which the Goods are the Produce, and from which they are imported (9), except the Goods herein-after mentioned; (that is to say), (3) See § 15. (1) See Liberty to import for Exportation, § 21. (5) See Cap. 107. § 46. (6) See Power to admit certain Articles from Guernsey and Jersey, Cap. 107. § 40. See also Productions of any Part of the Portuguese Dominions, coming from any other Part, 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 2. See also Elephants Teeth from Portugal, &c. 51 Geo. 3. c. 47. § 4. (7) Declared to be in Europe, Cap. 107. § 116. (8) Bullion and Diamonds do not require Entry, Cap. 107. § 2. Goods, the- Produce of the Dominions of the Grand Seignor, in Asia or Africa, which may be imported from his Dominions in Europe, in-Ships of his Dominions : Raw Silk and Mohair Yarn, the Produce of Asia, Bullion. duce. V. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, Manufacture That all-manufactured Goods shall be deemed to be deemed Prothe Produce of the Country of which they are the Manufacture. VI. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall From Guernbe imported into the United Kingdom from the Islands of sey, &c. Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man-except in British Ships. VII. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall Exports to Asia, be exported from the United Kingdom-to any British &c. and to Possession in Asia, Africa, or America, nor to the Guernsey, &c. Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, except in British Ships. VIII. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall Coastwise. be carried Coastwise, from one Part of the United Guernsey, Jersey, &c. IX. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall Between be carried from any of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man,- to any other of such Islands; nor from one Part of any such Islands to another Part of the same Island, except in British Ships. from any British Possession in Asia, Africa, or tish Possessions in Asia, &c. X. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall be Between Bricarried America, to any other of such Possessions, one Part of any of such Possessions to of the same, except in British Ships. (2) nor from another Part (1) See Definition of Coasting Trade, Cap. 107. § 100. and 101. (2) See Exception in favour of Ships built in India prior to 1st January Imports, British Possessions in Asia, &c. No Ship British, unless registered and navigated as such: But Vessels XI. AND be it further enacted, That no Goods shall be imported into any British Possession in Asia, Africa, or America, in any Foreign Ships, -unless they be Ships of the Country (1)—of which the Goods are the Produce (2), and-from which the Goods are imported. XII. AND be it further enacted, That no Ship shall be admitted to be a British Ship -unless duly registered (3) and navigated as such; AND that every British registered Ship (so long as the Registry of such Ship shall be in force, or the Certificate of such Registry retained for the Use of such Ship) shall be navigated during the Whole of every Voyage (whether with a Cargo or in Ballast), in every Part of the World (4)-by a Master (5) who is a British Subject, and by a Crew (5), whereof Three-fourths at least are British Seamen; AND if such Ship be employed in a coasting Voyage from one Part of the United Kingdom to another, or in a Voyage between the United Kingdom and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, or from one of the said Islands to another of them, or from one Part of either of them to another of the same, or be employed in fishing on the Coasts of the United Kingdom or of any of the said Islands, THEN the Whole of the Crew shall be British Seamen. XIII. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That all British-built Boats or Vessels under Fifteen Tons Burthen, wholly owned and navigated by British Subjects, although not registered as British Ships, shall be admitted to be British Vessels, in all Navigation in the Rivers (6) — and upon the Coasts of the United Kingdom, — or of the British Possessions abroad, and not proceeding over Sea, except within the Limits of the respective Colonial (1) See conditional Limitations of this Privilege, Cap. 114. § 4. See also temporary Privilege to certain Foreign Ships in America, Cap. 114. § 6.; and in India, Cap. 114. § 77. (2) See § 5. (3) See Cap. 110. § 2. which enacts that no Ship shall be a "British registered Ship" until registered in the Manner required by that Act. — On Questions "touching the Force and Effect of any Register," see Power of Governors abroad to stay Proceedings, Cap. 110. § 48. (4) See § 18. See Penalty, § 19. (5) See § 16. (6) As to Traffic on Lakes and Inland Waters in America, see Cap. 114. § 29. for Newfound Governments within which the managing Owners of such Vessels respectively reside; AND that all British- Under 30 Tons built Boats or Vessels wholly owned and navigated by land Fishery. British Subjects, not exceeding the Burthen of Thirty Tons, and not having a whole or a fixed Deck,- and being employed solely in fishing on the Banks and Shores of Newfoundland, and of the Parts adjacent, or on the Banks and Shores of the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, adjacent to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, or on the North of Cape Canso, or of the Islands within the same, or in trading Coastwise within the said Limits, shall be admitted to be British Boats or Vessels, although not registered, so long as such Boats or Vessels shall be solely so employed. Honduras Ships to be as British, in Trade with United King XIV. PROVIDED also, and be it further enacted, That all Ships-built in the British Settlements (1) at Honduras, and owned and navigated as British Ships, shall be entitled to the Privileges of British registered dom. Ships in all direct Trade between the United Kingdom and the said Settlements;-provided the Master shall produce a Certificate under the Hand of the Superintendent of those Settlements, that satisfactory Proof has been made before him that such Ship (describing the same) was built in the said Settlements, and is wholly owned by British Subjects; PROVIDED also, that the Time of the Clearance of such Ship from the said Settlements for every Voyage shall be endorsed upon such Certificate by such Superintendent. OR have been OR have been XV. AND be it further enacted, That no Ship shall be admitted to be a Ship of any particular Country,- unless she be of the Built of such Country; made Prize of War to such Country; forfeited to such Country under any Law of the same, made for the Prevention of the Slave Trade, - and condemned as such Prize or Forfeiture by a competent Court of such Country; OR be British-built (2)-(not having been a Prize of War from British Subjects to any other Foreign Ship of any Country; or Country. (1) Not being " Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories," such Ships cannot be registered, see Cap. 110. § 5. (2) Such Vessels, being sold to Foreigners, lose for ever the Privileges of |