Exportation (No. 2) Act 1788
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| 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." |
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| Citation | 28 Geo. 3. c. 38 |
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| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 25 June 1788 |
| Commencement | 27 November 1787[a] |
| Repealed | 6 August 1861 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amends | See § Repealed enactments |
| Repeals/revokes | See § Repealed enactments |
| Amended by | |
| Repealed by | Statute Law Revision Act 1861 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |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) was 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.
Provisions
Repealed enactments
Section 1 of the act repealed all acts in force so much "as relate in any manner to the carrying coastwise, or to the said isles, or any of them, or to prevent the exportation of the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 Will. 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]