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9. Clause 10 of the Bill establishes a system of Standard Production and the payment by distilleries of duties having regard to that standard The standard is established with the object of checking evasion.
10. Clause 11 of this Bill provides a form of ship to ship removal permit and shortens the period for ship- ment of liquors to twenty-four hours before the time mentioned in the ship's clearance. This shortening is coùsidered desirable for the purpose of lessening the opportunities of committing offences against this Ordin- ance. It also empowers the Superintendent to demand the production of shipping documents.
11. Clause 12 of this Bill adds the words "of the same kind of liquor" to section 50 of Ordinance 9 of 1911 so as to prevent accounting difficulties from being created by different classes of liquors being ineluded in the same case for export.
12. Clause 13 of the Bill effects an amendment in section 54 of Ordinance 9 of 1911, with a view to prevent- ing as far as possible the improper use of a permit for getting liquor out of bond under pretence of exporting it.
13. Clause 14 of the Bill repeals section 70 of "Orlinance 9 of 1911, because it is undesirable that the power to search goods or baggage should be limited to cases in which there is reasonable canse to suspect that such goods or baggage contained dutiable liquors or denatured spirits,
14. Clause 15 of the Bill amends section 71 of Ordinance 9 of 1911 so as to confer upon Revenue Officers, authorized by the Superintendent in that behalf, power to search any ship, not being or having the status of a ship of war, and to seize remove and detain anything foun in any such ship with respect to which the Revenue Officer has reason- able grounds of suspecting that any offence against Ordinance 9 of 1911 has been committed. This power is similar to the power conferred upon Revenue Officers, so authorized, by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 22 of 1923, s. 7, and by the Opium Ordinance, 30 of 1923, s. 31.
15. Clause 16 of the Bill repeals section 73 of Ordinance 9 of 1911, (which compels the Superintendent in the case of an unsuccessful search for intoxicating liquors or other articles liable to forfeiture ander that Ordinance to repack or cause to be repacked any goods unpacked during such search and to be responsible for damages caused in the course of such repacking) as being an impracticable provision to carry out. There is no such provision in the Tobacco Ordinance, 10 of 1916.
16. Clause 17 of the Bill repeals section 76 of Ordinance 9 of 1911, because the first sub-section, which enable a magistrate to adjudicate a portion of a fiué to an informer is rendered unnecessary by the fact that there is now a fixed tariff for informers. Sub-section (2) of section 76 is repealed as unnecessary because it concerns a matter arising solely between the Superintendent and the Government.
17. Clause 18 of the Bill adds in sections 79 and 80 of
Ordinance 9 of 1911 the words or the Mouopoly Analyst to the words "the Government Analyst' because the examination of liquor is now performed by the former officer.
18. Clause 19 of this Bill repeals section 81 of the principal Ordinance, which empowers the Governor to stop proceedings and to order restitution of articles for- feited, as being unusual and unnecessary. There is no such provision in the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916.