1989 Ed.]
Dutiable Commodities
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Sang Chit (生切)
Ting Sook (丁熟)
Yee Sook (二熟)
Chai See (齊絲)
Kan Yip (揀葉)
and Jing Chit (正切)
Sheung Sook (E)
and may include any other traditional Chinese prepared tobacco which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, is of a type and quality approximate to any of the 7 types of Chinese prepared tobacco specified above; (Amended 3 of 1970 s. 29; L.N. 294 of 1982)
"cigar" means any roll of tobacco capable of being smoked by itself and which-
(a) has an outer wrapper of natural tobacco; or
(b) predominantly contains broken or threshed leaf and has a binder of reconstituted tobacco and an outer wrapper of reconstituted tobacco fitted spirally; (Added 66 of 1986 s. 29)
"cigarette" means any roll of tobacco capable of being smoked by itself not being a cigar; (Added 66 of 1986 s. 29)
"manufacture" means the conversion of tobacco into manufactured tobacco; "manufactured tobacco" includes cigarettes, cigars, snuff, hand-rolling tobacco, smoking tobacco, cigar cuttings, reconstituted tobacco and Chinese prepared tobacco; (Added 66 of 1986 s. 29)
"manufacturer" includes any person who owns or controls any factory or other place wherein tobacco is manufactured;
"tobacco" includes manufactured and unmanufactured tobacco of every description and tobacco stalks, tobacco refuse, tobacco seedlings and tobacco plants;
"unmanufactured tobacco" means tobacco which has undergone no process of manufacture except curing, stripping or drying or any of them.
66. (Repealed 10 of 1988 s. 2)
67. Manufacture, etc. of adulterated tobacco
(1) A tobacco manufacturer shall not in manufacturing tobacco use any substance other than water or steam, except to such extent as may be permitted by the Commissioner and subject to such conditions as the Commissioner may impose. (Amended L.N. 294 of 1982)
(2) Save where their use by him is permitted by or under this section, a tobacco manufacturer shall not receive or have in his possession any of the following substances, namely-