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No. 32 of 1915.
Export manifests to be evidence of importation and exportation.
(b) If any cargo appears on any export manifest, furnished by the owners, charterers, agents or master of any ship before or after the time of sailing of such ship, it shall be presumed in favour of the Crown against any other party that such cargo was exported or was intended to be exported from the Colony on board such ship, according as such ship shall have actually left the waters of the Colony or not, unless such other party shall prove affirmatively that the said cargo was not exported or was not intended to be exported from the Colony on board such ship, as the case may be.
Certificates of British customs or consular officers to be prima facie evidence.
Power of the Governor in Council to relax provisions.
Offences.
Penalties.
(c) Any certificate produced from official custody and purporting to be signed by any British customs or consular officer shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters stated therein.
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in his absolute discretion to relax in any way, either generally or in particular cases, any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any Order in Council made thereunder, to make such relaxation defeasible upon the happening of any event whatsoever, and to withdraw any relaxation so granted.
11. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any Order in Council made thereunder, or who fails to observe any condition or restriction prescribed or to discharge any obligation imposed by or under this Ordinance or by or under any Order in Council made thereunder, shall be deemed to commit an offence against this Ordinance.
12.-(1) Every person who commits or attempts to commit any offence against this Ordinance or against any Order in Council made thereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable upon conviction either summarily or on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order to be forfeited to the Crown any article in respect of which any offence against this Ordinance or against any Order in Council made thereunder has been committed whether
* As amended by No. 30 of 1917 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.