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."
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Repealed acts
Section 1 of the act repealed all acts in force so much "as relate in any manner to the carrying coastwise, or to the said isles, or any of them, or to prevent the exportation of the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]
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 c. 78), which repealed so much of thre act as respects the removal of wool, within a certain distance of the sea.[3]
