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Import and Export
[1986 Ed.
Offences by directors, etc. of corporations.
Time limitation for criminal proceedings.
Informers.
Amendment of Schedule.
makes or causes to be made any statement or furnishes or causes to be furnished any information orally or in writing which is false or misleading in a material particular or omits any material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years, unless he satisfies the court or magistrate that he did not know and had no reason to believe the statement or information to be false or misleading or the omission to be material. (Amended, 3 of 1984, s. 3)
(2) Any person who-
(a) forges any licence;
(b) without the authority of the Director makes any alteration
to any licence; or
(c) knowingly utters or makes use of any licence that has been forged or, without the authority of the Director, altered,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years. (Replaced, 3 of 1984, s. 3)
36A. Where an offence under section 36 is committed by a body corporate, every person who, at the time of the commission of the offence, was a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.
(Added, 3 of 1984, s. 4)
37. A complaint may be made or an information laid in respect of an offence under this Ordinance within 2 years from the time when the matter of such complaint or information respectively arose.
38. Save where, in the opinion of the court, justice so requires, the name or identity of any informer and the information given by such informer shall not be disclosed in any civil or criminal proceedings and the court may make any order and adopt any procedure necessary to prevent any such disclosure.
39. The Governor may amend the Schedule by notice published in the Gazette.
SCHEDULE
[ss. 27, 28 & 39.]
ARTICLES IN RESPECT OF WHICH, IF THEY ARE LIABLE TO FORFEITURE, AN ORDER FOR THEIR FORFEITURE IS MANDATORY
1. [Deleted, L.N. 257/73]
2. [Deleted, L.N. 210/75]
3.
Any article prescribed in the Schedule to the Import and Export (Strategic Commodities) Regulations.