Exportation (No. 2) Act 1788

Exportation (No. 2) Act 1788

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to explain, amend, and reduce into one Act of Parliament, several Laws now in being for preventing the Exportation of live Sheep, Rams, and Lambs, Wool, Woolfels, Mortlings, Shortlings, Yarn, and Worsted, Cruels, Coverlids, Waddings, and other Manufactures, or pretended Manufactures, made of Wool slightly wrought up, or otherwise put together, so as the same may be reduced to and made use of as Wool again, Mattrasses or Beds stuffed with combed Wool, or Wool fit for combing, Fullers Earth, Fulling Clay, and Tobacco Pipe Clay, from this Kingdom, and from the Isles of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, into Foreign Parts; and for rendering more effectual an Act passed in the Twenty-third Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, "An Act for the winding of Wool."
Citation	28 Geo. 3. c. 38
Territorial extent	Great Britain Jersey Guernsey Alderney Sark Isle of Man
Dates
Royal assent	25 June 1788
Commencement	25 June 1788[a]
Repealed	6 August 1861
Other legislation
Amends	See § Repealed acts
Repeals/revokes	See § Repealed acts
Amended by	Removal of Wool Act 1814 Fullers Earth, etc. Act 1817 Registry of Wool Act 1821 Customs Law Repeal Act 1825
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1861
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Exportation (No. 2) Act 1788 (28 Geo. 3. c. 38) is an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that consolidated acts relating to the exportation of wool in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

Background

The regulations and restrictions related to the exportation of wool from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the isles of Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney and Man had become numerous and disparate, leading to the desire for consolidation.[1]

Provisions

Repealed acts

Section 1 of the act repealed all acts in force so much "as relate in any manner to the carrying coastwise, or to the said isles, or any of them, or to prevent the exportation of the following articles, goods or commodities; (that is to say) live sheep, rams and lambs, wool, woolsels, mortlings, shortlings, yarn or worsted made of wool woolflocks, cruels, coverlids, waddings, or other manufactures, or pretended manufactures, made of wool slightly wrought up, or otherwise put together, so as the same may be reduced to and made use as wool again, or mattrasses or beds stuffed with combed wool, or wool fit for combing or carding, or any fuller's earth, fulling clay, tobacco-pipe clay", except for so much of the Exportation Act 1697 (9 & 10 Gul. 3 c. 40) "as relates to wool shorn, laid up or lodged within ten miles of the sea tide within the counties of Kent or Sussex, or either of them, or to any person or persons residing within fifteen miles of the sea of the said counties of Kent or Sussex".[1]

Legacy

The Select Committee on Temporary Laws described this act as a Consolidation Act.[2]

The act was amended by the Removal of Wool Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3. c. 78), which repealed so much of thre act as respects the removal of wool, within a certain distance of the sea.[3]

The act was amended by the Fullers Earth, etc. Act 1817 (57 Geo. 3. c. 88), which permitted fuller's earth, fulling clay and tobacco pipe clay to be carried by sea under certain restrictions.[3]

The act was amended by the Registry of Wool Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 81), so far as the act required registry of wool sent by sea.[3]

The act was wholly repealed by the Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. 105), which contained savings for:[3]

1. Any repeals of former acts contained within the act, which remain in effect.
2. Arrears of duties or drawbacks that had become due and payable prior to the act.
3. Any penalty or forfeiture which had been incurred under the acts.
4. Any parts of the act relating to Ireland that create or regulate jurisdiction for the trial of offenses committed there.

For the avoidance of doubt, given these savings, the act was again wholly repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 101).[3]

Notes

1. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

1. Britain, Great (1787). The Statutes at Large: From the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761 [continued to 1807]. Vol. 36. J. Bentham. pp. 432–471.
2. Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (1803). Reports from Committees of the House of Commons which Have Been Printed by Order of the House: And are Not Inserted in the Journals [1715-1801. Vol. 14. pp. 34–118.
3. Parliamentary Bills &c. Ordered to be printed. 1861.