Act of Parliament | |
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Long title | Act for better Securing the Duties of East India Goods. |
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Citation | |
Territorial extent | Great Britain |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 18 December 1707 |
Commencement | 23 October 1707 [c] |
Repealed | 5 July 1825 |
Other legislation | |
Repealed by | Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 |
Relates to | |
Status: Repealed | |
Text of statute as originally enacted |
The Duties on East India Goods Act 1707 [1] (6 Ann. c. 37) [a] was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
The act was considered by a committee of the House of Lords on 15 December 1707, after which Lord Herbert reported that it was "fit to pass, without any Amendment", which was then done. [2] It received royal assent on 18 December 1707. [3]
The act extended the monopoly of the English East India Company across Scotland thus encompassing the whole of the new Great Britain. Thus this corporation based in the City of London was able to enjoy a set of privileges which enabled it, rather than private British subjects, to dominate trade in half of the emerging British Empire. [3]
The whole act was repealed by section 444 of the Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. 105).