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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 14, 1916.
Export permits.
Revenue officers.
Ord. No. 9
of 1911.
Ord. No. 4 of 1914.
Revenue
officer may board and remain on ship. Search of goods and baggage of persons entering or leaving the Colony.
(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 employee 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 twenty-four hours after such date or so soon thereafter as the office of the Superinteu- dent is open.
38.--(1.) Export permits shall be issued in duplicate and the exporter shall procure a receipt for the tobacco iu question to be endorsed 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 cudorsed to the Superintendent.
(2.) The Superintendent may instead of issuing the du plicate 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 con- sider reasonable.
(4.) The Superintendent may refuse to issue any export permit to export dutiable tobacco as ships stores uuless
the application for the permit is endorsed by the master or agent of the ship to the effect that the tobacco is for ships
use.
(5.) No export permit shall be necessary for the ex- portation of any tobacco which is, without landing or tran- shipment 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 Ordi- nance 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.
(3.) No revenue officer shall desert or absent himself from his duty or be guilty of any breach of discipline or neglect of duty.
(4.) Every revenue officer shall ou ceasing for any cause to be a revenue officer, and at any time on demand by the Superintendent, deliver up his badge of office to the Super- intendent.
(5.) Every revenue officer under this Ordinance and every person having the powers of a revenue officer under this Ordinance and every police officer when acting against any person under this Ordinance shall on demand declare his office and produce his badge.
(6.) The following shall have all the powers of a re-
. venue officer under this Ordinance :--
(a) the Superintendent ;
(b) all police officers;
(c) all revenue officers appointed under the Liquors
Consolidation Ordinance, 1911;
(d) all revenue officers appointed under the Opini
Ordinance, 1914.
Search, Examination and Arrest.
40. Any revenue officer may board any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) and remain on board so long as such ship remains in the Colony.
41.-(1.) Every person landing from or embarking on any ship or entering or leaving the Colony by land accom- panied by any goods or baggage shall-
(a) on demand by any revenue or police officer either permit his goods and baggage to be searched by such officers or, together with such