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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 17, 1930.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,
Hong Kong.
No. 636.
Regulations and exemptions made by the Governor in Council under sections 3 and 35 respectively of the Motor Spirit Ordinance, 1930, Ordinance No. 4 of 1930, on the 15th day of October, 1930.
Special Importers Regulations.
1. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to issue a Special Importer's Licence to any holder of a Licensed Warehouse Licence if the Licensed Warehouse to which such licence relates has a storage capacity for light oils of not less than 100,000 gallons.
2. Every such licence shall be in the form in the First Schedule to these Regulations.
3. The fee for every such licence shall be $100.
4. The holder of a Special Importer's Licence shall confine the storage and handling of light oils to such part or parts of the Licensed Warehouse as may from time to time be approved by the Superintendent.
5. No Special Importer's Licence shall be issued until the licensee has entered into a bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars with a surety approved by the Superinten- dent, for the observance of all the requirements of the Motor Spirit Ordinance, 1930, and any Ordinance amending the same and any regulations made or to be made thereunder. The said bond may be in the form in the Second Schedule to these Regulations with such alterations, omissions and additions, if any, as may be necessary.
6. (1) The holder of a Special Importer's Licence shall furnish to the Superinten- dent on or before the seventh day of each month in a form to be approved by the Superintendent a true, accurate and complete return in respect of the last preceding month shewing:-
(a) the balance of stock of light oils from last return;
(b) the quantity of light oils imported;
(c) the quantity of light oils exported:
(d) the quantity of light oils issued to Government order;
(e) the total of all quantities of light oils delivered to local consumers or
dealers;
the quantity of light oils to be written off owing to loss due to evaporation
and other causes (with explanations of such losses);
(g) the balance of stock of light oils at close of month;
and shall pay duty at the time of furnishing the said return, on the total of all quanti- ties shewn under (e).
(2) All quantities of light oils included in the total shewn under (e) in paragraph (1) of this regulation shall, so far as concerns all persons other than such holder of a Special Importer's Licence and his surety, be deemed duty paid light oils as from the respective dates on which the same are delivered to local consumers or dealers.
7. Every holder of a Special Importer's Licence is hereby exempted from the pro- visions of section 9 (1) (a) and (b) of the Motor Spirit Ordinance, 1930.