1046
CH. 69.
Notice of seizure of goods.
39 & 40 Vict. c. 36.
Require-
ment of pre-entry of ships' stores.
Provisions
Import, Export and 2 & 3 GEO. 6. Customs Powers (Defence) Act, 1939.
place or person, and such goods so consigned are delivered otherwise than to that place or person, as the case may be, the vessel in which the goods were exported shall be deemed to have been used in the conveyance of prohibited goods.
(3) If any goods are imported, exported, carried coastwise or shipped as ships' stores, or are brought to any quay or other place, or waterborne, for the purpose of being exported or of being so carried or shipped, an officer of Customs and Excise may require any person possessing or having control of the goods to furnish proof that the importation, exportation or carriage coastwise of the goods or the shipment of the goods as ships' stores, as the case may be, is not unlawful by virtue either of an order under this Act or of the law relating to trading with the enemy; and if such proof is not furnished to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, the goods shall be deemed to be prohibited goods unless the contrary is proved.
In any proceedings taken by virtue of this sub- section, an averment in the information that such proof as aforesaid has not been furnished to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise shall, unless the contrary is proved, be sufficient evidence that no such proof has been furnished to their satisfaction.
4. Where any goods are seized as forfeited, the notice of the seizure required by section two hundred and seven of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, to be given to the owner of the goods may, if the owner has no address in the United Kingdom, be given by the publication of a notice of the seizure in the London, Edinburgh or Belfast Gazette.
5. Section one hundred and thirty-nine of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, (which relates to the pre-entry and clearance of goods) shall have effect as if the reference therein to goods intended for exportation or carriage coastwise included a reference to goods intended for exportation as ships' stores or carriage coastwise as ships' stores.
6.-(1) For the purpose of securing compliance as to clear- with the provisions of this Act or any order made under section one of this Act or with any other enactment
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