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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 14, 1916.
16.-(1.) No tobacco shall be imported or exported Ronte of except by sea or by the Railway.
importation
and
(2.) No tobacco shall be imported from China into the exportation. New Territories: Provided that this sub-section shall not apply to tobacco which is imported by the Railway and which is not removed from the train anywhere except at Kowloon station.
(3.) It shall be lawful for the Superintendent either generally or in any particular case to grant exemption from any of the provisions of this section.
to be allowed
17.-1.) The owners, charterers, agents, master and Dutiable compradore of every ship shall not allow the discharge of tobacco not any dutiable tobacco from the ship without a permit unless To be dis- the tobacco is delivered direct to the licensee of a general charged bonded warehouse or his servant for removal direct into except under a general bonded warehouse.
a permit or into a gen-
(2.) If any dutiable tobacco is discharged from a ship eral bonded without a permit and is not delivered direct to the licensee warehouse. of a general bonded warehouse or his servant for removal direct into a general bonded warehouse the owners, char- terers, agents, master and compradore of the ship shall be deemed to have allowed the tobacco to be so discharged and shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless it shall be proved to the Court or magis- trate that the tobacco was so discharged without the knowledge of the person charged and that such person had taken all reasonable precautions to prevent any such discharge.
(3.) Notwithstanding anything coutained in this section it shall be lawful for the master of any ship to permit the landing of any dutiable tobacco which forms part of the contents of a mail brought into the Colony by such ship: provided that such tobacco is landed for removal direct to the Post Office as part of such mail.
tobacco not to be removed
18.-(i.) No person other than the licensee of a general Dutiable bonded warehouse shall remove any dutiable tobacco from any ship or from any Railway premises except under and in accordance with the conditious of a permit issued under from a ship this Ordinance, and if the licensee of a general bonded or from the warehouse removes any 'dutiable tobacco from a ship or
Railway premises from any Railway premises without a permit he shall except under forthwith remove such tobacco direct into a general licen- a permit or
by the licen- see of a (2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section general it shall be lawful for the master of any ship to remove or bonded
to be removed to the Post Office any dutiable Warehouse tobacco which forms part of the contents of a mail brought warehouse. into the Colony by such ship: provided that such dutiable tobacco is removed direct from the ship to the Post Office as part of the contents of such mail.
sed warehouse.
cause
into such
any
Tobacco not
19. No person shall remove any tobacco from general bonded or licensed warehouse except under and to be in accordance with the conditions of a permit issued under this Ordinance.
removed
from any general
bonded or licensed warehouse without a permit.
under a
20. No person shall reland or permit to be relanded Tobacco any tobacco shipped under any permit or knowingly shipped neglect or omit to cause such tobacco to be exported in permit not accordance with the terms of such permit.
to be reland- ed.
which is not
21.-(1.) Dutiable tobacco imported on board any ship Dutiable and intended to be exported on board the same ship with- tobacco out landing or transhipment or to be used as ships stores landed or while the ship is in the waters of the Colony shall during transhipped. the whole time that the ship is in the waters of the Colony be kept in a place of safety under the custody and control of the master.
(2.) The Superintendent and any person authorised by him in writing either generally or in any particular instance shall be permitted at all times to inspect such dutiable tobacco and to place seals on any package or place in which it may be.
(3.) No seal so placed shall without the permission of the Superintendent be broken while the ship is in the waters of the Colony.
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