1986 Ed.]
Import and Export
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(2) The owner of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle, on receiving from a licensee an endorsed import licence and written declaration pursuant to subsection (1)—
(a) may release the article to the consignee, if he is satisfied that he is not prohibited from doing so under any condition of the import licence; and
(b) shall, within 7 days after receiving the import licence and written declaration—
(i) endorse the licence and return it to the person to whom it was issued; and
(ii) deliver the written declaration to the Director together with a copy or extract of the manifest of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle in or on which the article was imported, duly certified by him as a true copy or extract of the manifest.
(3) The written declaration referred to in subsections (1) and (2) shall be made in such form as the Director may specify from time to time.
(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000.
10. (1) The owner of a vessel, aircraft or vehicle shall not accept any prohibited article for export on the vessel, aircraft or vehicle until there is produced to him an export licence issued under this Ordinance or some other law in respect of the prohibited article.
(2) Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year. (Amended, 60 of 1980, s. 3)
(3) It shall be a defence to a charge under this section if the defendant proves that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have known that the article to which the charge relates was a prohibited article.
11. (1) When a licence has been issued under this Ordinance for the export of an article, the owner of the article shall, before it is exported, deliver the licence to the owner of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle in or on which he intends to export it.
(2) The owner of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle in or on which an article in respect of which an export licence has been issued under this Ordinance is exported shall, within 14 days after the day on which the article is exported, deliver the export licence to the Director, together with a certified copy or certified extract of the manifest of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle in or on which the article has been exported.
(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000.
Carriers prohibited from accepting prohibited articles for export without licence.
Delivery of export licence and manifest to the Director.
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