Foreign Prison-made Goods Act 1897

by the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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CHAPTER 63.

A.D. 1897. An Act to prohibit the Importation of Foreign Prison made Goods.[6th August 1897.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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, as follows:

Prohibition of importation of foreign prison-made goods.
39 & 40 Vict. c. 36. 1. There shall be added to the table of prohibitions and restrictions contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, the following, that is to say:

Goods proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs by evidence tendered to them to have been made or produced wholly or in part in any foreign prison, gaol, house of correction, or penitentiary, except goods in transit or not imported for the purposes of trade, or of a description not manufactured in the United Kingdom.

Short title. 2. This Act may be cited as the Foreign Prison-made Goods Act, 1897.