Second Schedule. Forms Nos. 6, 7, 8.
Export permits
Revenue officers.
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(2) Such permits may be in the respective forms in the Second Schedule or in such other form as the Governor in Council may appoint.
(3) Before issuing any permit it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to demand the production of all or any invoices, bills of lading or other documents relating to the tobacco in question, and the person applying for the permit shall on such demand produce all such documents.
(4) Every person who applies for any export permit shall submit to the Superintendent the application and permit in triplicate, and every person who applies for any other permit shall submit to the Superinten- dent the application and permit in duplicate.
(5) Every application for a permit under this Ordinance shall be signed by the applicant, and if the applicant is a body corporate or a firm the application shall be signed also by some employé or agent of such body corporate or firm, and in the case of a Chinese firm the application shall also be chopped with the chop of the firm.
(6) Every person who has obtained a permit under this Ordinance and who has not availed himself thereof on the date for which it was issued shall return such permit to the Superintendent within two hours of the time when it first became known to such person that the permit could not be used within the time granted, or so soon thereafter as the office of the Superintend- ent is open, and if so required give to the Superintend- ent a full explanation of the reason for not using such permit.
38.-(1) Export permits shall be issued in duplicate and the exporter shall procure a receipt for the tobacco in question to be indorsed on one copy of such permit by the master or mate of the ship on which the tobacco is to be exported and shall forthwith deliver such copy so indorsed to the Superintendent.
(2) The Superintendent may, instead of issuing the duplicate copy of the export permit to the exporter, deliver it to a revenue officer who shall thereupon accompany the tobacco on board the ship on which it is to be exported.
(3) The Superintendent may refuse to issue any export permit until such time before the proposed sailing of the ship on which the tobacco is to be exported as he may consider reasonable.
(4) The Superintendent may refuse to issue any export permit to export tobacco as ships stores unless the application for the permit is indorsed by the master or agent of the ship to the effect that the tobacco is for ships use. The Superintendent may also refuse to issue any such permit in respect of any quantities in excess of the quantities which he may deem sufficient in the circumstances of each case.
(5) No export permit shall be necessary for the exportation of any tobacco which is, without landing or transhipment into any other ship, exported on the ship on which it was imported.
Revenue officers.
39.--(1) The Superintendent may appoint such persons as he may think fit to act as revenue officers under this Ordinance and may at any time cancel any such appointment.
(2) The Superintendent may in case of any absence from duty or breach of discipline or neglect of duty on the part of any revenue officer order such revenue officer to forfeit any sum not exceeding ten dollars.