Customs and Excise Act 1787

The Customs and Excise Act 1787 (27 Geo.

3. c. 13), also known as the Gilbert Act, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that consolidated and reformed customs duties in Great Britain.

[1] Section 1 of the act provided that from 10 May 1787, "all subsidies, customs, importations, or duties whatever (respecting the revenue of customs) payable to his Majesty, customs, and his heirs and successors, by virtue of any act or acts of parliament now in force, upon the importation of any goods, wares, backs, to or merchandize, into Great Britain; or upon the exportation of cease, any goods, wares, or merchandize, from Great Britain; or upon any goods, wares, or merchandize, being brought or carried coastwise, or from port to port within the said kingdom, and the several and respective drawbacks allowed upon the exportation of any goods, wares, or merchandize, from Great Britain or on any other account whatever, respecting the duties of customs; and also the additional imposts or duties charged upon the product and amount of the said several duties of customs, shall cease", with the exception of certain duties payable to the City of London and certain duties, including in Newcastle upon Tyne.

4. c. 105), which repealed the act "as relates to the Importation or Exportation of Goods, Wares or Merchandize, or as relates to the Mode of collecting or securing Payment of Duties of Customs, or the Allowance of Drawback of such Duties, upon any Goods, Wares or Merchandize imported into or exported from this Kingdom.

c. 116), as all non-repealed enactments had been superseded or made obsolete.