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Official Instructions relating to The Waterguard |
The work of the Waterguard, like other parts of HM Customs & Excise, and indeed all other Government Departments, was governed by Official Instructions. These took the form of bound and loose-leaf books for which additional pages or amendments were issued as required. These instructions were divided into two main categories known as:
Establishment Codes - Based on the Treasury Codes as they applied to HMC&E, and covering in various Volumes the pay, overtime, allowances, terms of employment, discipline and expected behaviour.
Customs Codes - Covering, in various Volumes, the work of HM Customs and how the various legislation was to be interpreted and the regulations applied in detail.
Temporary Amendments to all Codes were issued and printed on green paper. They were usually incorporated into the appropriate Code at the time of the next full amendment.
Temporary instructions and notices of a transitory nature were published in pamphlet form as General Orders (GOs) and Omnibus Weekly Orders (OWOs).
Confidential management instructions were issued in the form of letters and circulars to Waterguard Superintendents by the Inspector General of Waterguard's office - the IGW's office also distributed confidential information of an ongoing operational nature by circular. In addition policy decisions on various aspects of the work, or particular imported goods, were the subject of Board's Orders.
Some of the Official Instructions, in their order of perceived relative importance, are listed below:
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Board's Order 26513 (extract) - 1944 (referring to staffing at Burnham and Maldon - Essex) |
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Board's Order 31535 (extract) - 1946 (referring to the hire of a motorboat at Burnham on Crouch - 12-15 Aug 1946) |
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Board's Order 31535 (extract) - 1946 (referring to an agreement for hire of a motorboat at Burnham on Crouch - 7 July 1947) |
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Board's Order 77003 (extract) - 1956 (referring to the temporary re-importation of Decca Navigational Equipment - 20 April 1959) |
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In 1953, following a staff suggestion, the Board decided that with certain minor exceptions, all future reprints or revisions of official instructions would be issued in the form of loose-leaves printed on both sides of the paper and punched for four-hole filing in binders to accommodate about 500 leaves with a 'window' on the spine for a card to indicate the range of contents. OWO 12/1953 Part 3 of 20 March 1953, which introduced the change and can be seen as a PDF by selecting the 'button' on the right. |
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Customs Code Vol 1 Part 1 - Smuggling - Instructions on how to deal with smuggling. |
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Customs Code Vol 1 Part 4 - Examination of Passengers' Baggage - Instructions on how to deal with passengers and their baggage. |
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Customs Code Vol 4 Part 8 - Dangerous Drugs - Instructions on how to deal with dangerous drugs, and utensils, imported or exported by passengers or crew. |
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Customs Code Vol 7 Part 4 - Hovercraft - Instructions on how to deal with hovercraft. |
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Directions for the Guidance of Waterguard Superintendents - 1956 * |
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Directions for the Guidance of Chief Preventive Officers - 1956 |
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Directions for the Guidance of Chief Preventive Officers - 1969 (as amended in 1970) |
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Modern Smuggling and its Detection - 1833. |
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Notes on Smuggling and its Detection - For circulation among Officers who apply for a copy - 1936/7 |
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Directions to Assistant Preventive Officers - 1933 |
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Instructions to Coast Preventive Men - 1935 |
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Instructions to Chief Officers, Superintendents, Preventive Officers in Charge and Boatmen in Charge - 1905. For the guidance, and assistance in the performance of duties as an Officer of Customs in charge of a port or creek. They were, as far as was applicable, to be read with the Instructions for Examining Officers and Preventive Officers, as well as with those for subordinate officers of Customs. |
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General Instructions to Surveyors and Officers Employed upon Excise Duties - 1913 (an extract referring to the supervision of Preventive Men on Preventive Stations. |
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Management letter to Waterguard Superintendents - February 1956 (referring to the issue of the 'Directions for the Guidance of Waterguard Superintendents - 1956' - see * above) |
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Boards Circular - 17 June 1917 (referring to Baggage Examination and Conveyance of Letters - Consolidated Instructions) |
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Boards Circular C 75 - 28 April 1920 (referring to the acceptance of drink by Waterguard Officers on board vessels.) |
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Boards Circular C 95 - 23 May 1918 (referring to Smuggling Rewards) |
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Boards Circular C 203 - 26 October 1920 (referring to an experimental option of deposit of treble the duty-paid value) |
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Boards Circular C 31835/1920- 20 October 1920 (referring to Smuggling - Option of deposit of treble duty-paid value) |
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IGW's Circular - April 1961 (referring to certificates of carving) |
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IGW's Circular - June 1969 (referring to the use of private motor vehicles) |
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The IGW's Office issued Smuggling Circulars, initially as text documents and later with diagrams. Select the 'button' on the right to see some of these Circulars. |
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Although not exclusively Waterguard orientated, these orders had some impact on the work of the Waterguard. Select the appropriate 'button' on the right below to see a PDF image of the Official Instructions referred to:
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General Order No. 57/1891 - 10 August 1891 (referring to the Duties of Preventive Officers following the Goshen report) |
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General Order No. 18/1898 - 21 March 1898 (referring to the Re-organisation of the establishment of the Waterguard Service above the rank of Boatman) |
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General Order No. 77/1901 - 1901 (introduced a revised List of Ports & Creeks in the UK, showing the places approved by the Commissioners of Customs as Boarding Stations) |
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General Order No. 25/1903 - 20 March 1903 (referring to Reorganisation of the Waterguard & improvement in position) |
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General Order No. 74/1905 - 11 September 1905 (referring to Concessions to the classes of Preventive Officers and Boatmen in regard to overtime, Sunday pay & Boatmen to be designated Preventive Men and to be paid weekly) |
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General Order No. 77/1905 - 29 September 1905 (referring to Preventive Men - late Boatmen - arrangements for payment of salaries weekly) |
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General Order No. 88/1905 - 14 December 1905 (referring to the Aliens Act, 1905 - Instructions to Officers) |
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General Order No. 94/1905 - 29 December 1905 (referring to Supervision of the Waterguard Staff) |
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General Order No. 27/1906 - 2 May 1906 (referring to Night & Sunday visits by Waterguard supervising officers) |
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General Order No. 53/1911 - 29 November 1911 (referring to Customs relations with the Navy) |
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General Order No. 25/1912 - 10 May 1912 (referring to Uniform Caps for Officers employed on Quay Duties) |
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General Order No. 39/1912 - 10 August 1912 (referring to report of the Committee on the Customs Waterguard Service & the Customs Watchers) |
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General Order No. 59/1912 - 17 December 1912 (referring to pay - CPOs and above) |
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General Order No. 22/1914 - 9 September 1914 (referring to Supervision & Acting Duty in the Waterguard) |
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General Order (Customs) No. 3/1915 & (Excise) No. 4/1915 - 8 February 1915 (referring to the acceptance of a bribe or gratuity) |
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General Order No. 36/1918 - 3 June 1918 (referring to Smuggling Rewards) |
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General Order No. 32/1919 - 17 April 1919 (referring to Preventive Officer & Preventive Men - Improvements in salary & Overtime) |
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General Order No. 72/1919 - 2 September 1919 (referring to Chief Preventive Officers Increased Remuneration) |
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General Order No. 88/1920 - 17 December 1920 (referring to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1920) |
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General Order No. 10/1921 - 9 February 1921 (referring to the prefix 'Mr' in the Waterguard Service) |
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General Order No. 35/1922 - 15 May 1922 (referring to Waterguard Supervision - duties of Waterguard Superintendents and Chief Preventive Officers) |
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General Order No. 51/1922 - 23 June 1922 (referring to Preventive Men on land duty) |
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General Order No. 11/1931 - 5 May 1931 (referring to the Re-organisation of the Waterguard Service) |
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General Order No. 32/1942 - 28 August 1942 (referring to Army Gunners serving on Merchant Ships) |
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General Order No. 5/1945 - 30 April 1945 (referring to the Re-organisation of the Waterguard Service) |
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General Order No. 3/1946 - 7 February 1946 (referring to the Refresher Courses for members of the Department returning from the Forces, etc. or from loan to other Departments.) |
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General Order No. 27/1946 - 28 August 1946 (referring to the Transitional arrangements for filling Preventive Officer vacancies pending the introduction of the new procedures) |
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General Order No. 6/1947 - 25 March 1947 (referring to the Training for new entrants to the Watcher and Coast Preventive Man grades) |
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General Order No. 13/1947 - 7 May 1947 (referring to Waterguard Re-organisation, CPO - Superintendents) |
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General Order No. 33/1948 - 15 December 1948 (referring to the future promotion of APOs to PO) |
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General Order No. 24/1948 - 27 May 1948 (XIVth Olympiad - 1948 - Importations by the Organising Commiltee and Competitors) |
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General Order No. 18/1950 - 31 July 1950 (referring to the introduction of Women Search Officers) |
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General Order No. 4/1951 - 21 February 1951 (referring to Waterguard Language Allowance) |
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General Order No. 13/1953 - 17 December 1953 (referring to the Northern Irish Land Boundary Patrol Force) |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 45/1935 - 1935 - (Item 2) Chief Preventive Officer's Diary |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 29/1947 - 16 July 1947 - Passengers' Baggage and Crews' Effects |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 34/1947 - 20 August 1947 - Currency Offences: Circulars 0.6 and 0.31 - Exchange Control Act. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 40/1947 Part 6 - 2 October 1947 - Use of Motor Cycles in Coast Preventive Stations |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 44/1947 - 27 October 1947 - Exchange Control Passengers' Baggage. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 45/1947 Part 2 - 6 November 1947 - Coast Preventive Men and Land Preventive Men: Revised rates of pay and conditions of employment. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 13/1952 Part 5 - 22 March 1952 - Treatment of Vehicles used in smuggling. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 12/1953 Part 3 - 20 March 1953 - Instructions. Introduction of a loose-leaf system. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 20/1956 Part 2 - 11 May 1956 - Air Traffic with the Isle of Man. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 43/1956 Part 2 - 18 October 1956 - Waterguard Service: Extra Duty Allowance. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 19/1961 - 10 May 1961 - (Item 3) Waterguard Service. Schemed time off duty and overtime conditions. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 6/1964 - January 1964 - (Part of item 4) New Judges' Rules and Directions |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 19/1964 Part 5 - 1 May 1964 - Examination of Assistant Preventive Officers for promotion to Preventive Officer. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 50/1964 Part 3 - 27 November 1964 - Conditioned hours of Waterguard staff employed outside the London Pay Area. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 8/1965 - 1965 - (Item 11) Waterguard Service Local Training Courses. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 4/1966 Part 4 - 25 January 1966 - Central Pay Increase |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 34/1966 Part 6 - 19 August 1966 - Finance Act 1966, Section 10 - Customs control of hover vehicles. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 35/1966 Part 7 - 30 August 1966 - The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1965. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 1/1967 - 4 January 1967 - (Item 1) Use of cash registers for the receipt of cash from passengers. |
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Omnibus Weekly Order 22/1970 - 3 June 1970 - (Items 2 & 7) -Waterguard Service-Language Allowances & Public Notice No. 8A (Foreign yachts and other private craft): issue of revised edition. |
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Omnibus Weekly Orders for the years 1930 to 1970 are held by the National Achieve at Kew where they can be viewed in person - not via the Internet or by post. A full index of references to the archive can be accessed from the 'button' on the right. |
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The Waterguard Ready Reckoner was used by preventive staff to assess duty and purchase tax on declared and undeclared goods belonging to crew and passengers. Any 'merchandise in baggage' was assessed using the legal rates in the Customs Tariff.
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Prior to the Waterguard Ready Reckoner, the Preventive Staff Association issued the Green Book - Tariff & Supplement, which later gained official recognition when the PSA's Fred Smallwood CPO, co-operated with the Board in producing an Official Ready Reckoner which retained much the same format. A copy of the third edition of the Green Book Tariff & Supplement, date stamped 1948, with many manuscript amendments by its then owner, believed to be HB Bevan Preventive Officer In Charge at Neyland Pembrokeshire, can be seen as a PDF by selecting the 'button' on the right. |
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General Order 43/1918 amended the Waterguard Ready Reckoner with 'recent alterations of the rates of import duty, a new table of duties, and seizure values.' The GO can be seen by selecting the 'button' on the right. |
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During the 1950's, the combined rates of Duty and Purchase Tax were set out in Customs Code Vol 1 Part 4 Appendix A which can be seen in the PDF accessed from the 'button' on the right. |
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A late edition of the official Waterguard Ready Reckoner, the cover page is dated 1971with amendment pages iii, v and 1are from January & November 1981 in the PDF accessed from the 'button' on the right, but they are representative of the pre 1972 Ready Reckoner. |
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