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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 31, 1911.

Permit not used to be returned in twenty-four bours.

Liquors abip- ped under a

permit not to be re- landed.

King's ware- houses.

Licensed

warehouse.

Inspection

of ware- houses. Prescribed books to be kept.

No

person

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54. Any person who has obtained a permit to move any liquors from any ship or to remove any liquors for export- ation and has not availed himself thereof on the day stated therein shall within twenty-four hours from such date or as soon thereafter as the Superintendent's Office may be open for business return such permit to such office.

5. No person shall reland or permit the relanding of any liquors shipped under any permit or knowingly neglect or omit to cause such liquors to be exported in accordance with the terms of such permit.

Storage of Dutiable Liquors.

56. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time approve and appoint warehouses or places of security to be King's warehouses for the warehousing of dutiable liquors and may from time to time revoke such approval and there- upon all dutiable liquors warehoused in a King's ware- house of which the approval has been revoked shall be re- moved as the Governor may direct.

57.-(1.) The Superintendent may from time to time with the approval of the Governor grant licences for the warehousing of dutiable liquors in places to be specified in such licences and to be called licensed warehouses and the Governor may at any time cancel any such licence and thereupon all dutiable liquors warehoused in a licensed war house the licence of which has been cancelled shall be removed as the Governor may direct.

(2.) The fee for such licence shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, or such other sum as the Legislative Council may by resolution from time to time direct, but no fee shall be charged for a licence granted to the Naval or Military Authorities for Naval or Military purposes.

(3.) No such licence shall be transferable without the consent of the Governor,

58.--(1.) The keeper of any King's warehouse and the licensee of licensed warehouse shall at all times during

any the usual business hours allow the Superintendent or any revenue officer to enter such warehouse and to inspect the stocks of liquors kept therein and to take samples thereof and to inspect and make copies of and extracts from any books of account kept in connection therewith.

(2.) The keeper of any King's warehouse and the licen- see of any licensed warehouse shall at all times keep proper books showing such particulars of all dutiable liquors ware- housed therein and of all liquors removed therefrom as shall be prescribed by regulations from time to time to be made under this Ordinance by the Governor-in-Council.

(3.) The keeper of a King's warehouse and the licenses of a licensed warehouse shall be liable to the Superin- tendent for the payment of any duties which may become payable in respect of the dutiable liquors warehoused in such King's or licensed warehouse and shall prevent the removal of dutiable liquors and denatured spirits from such King's or licensed warehouse except in accordance with the provisions of Section 60.

59.-(1) No person shall store or keep or have in his keep dutia possession or control any dutiable liquors except in a King's or licensed warehouse or in the ship in which the same may have been imported.

ble liquors

except in

King's or

licensed

warehouse.

have in his

(2.) No person shall have in his possession or control in No person to a King's or licensed warehouse any intoxicating liquors or possession in denatured spirits imported contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance or which may be or have come into his posses- sion or control contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance,

King's or

licensed

warehouse

liquors illegally

imported or possessed.

Restrictions

on buying

and selling

Jutiable liquors.

(3.) No person shall sell or offer for sale and no person shall buy any dutiable liquors stored elsewhere than in a King's or licensed warehouse, or in the ship in which the same may have been imported.

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