Amendment
of section
9 of Cap. 50.
Amendment
of section
10 of Cap.
60.
(2) Upon proof of any contravention of any condition contained in any licence the person to whom such licence has been issued shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence: Penalty: a fine of one hundred thousand dollars and im- prisonment for one year.
(3) Any person who in any application for a licence or in any declaration required to be made pursuant to this Ordinance or any regulations made thereunder makes any statement or furnishes any information, whether such state- ment is verbal or in writing, which is false in any material particular or by reason of the omission of any material particular and which he knows or has reason to believe is false, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty a fine of twenty thousand dollars and imprisonment for one year. In any prosecution for an offence contrary to this subsection the burden of proof that he did not know that such statement or information was false and that he did not have reason to believe it to be false, shall lie upon the accused."
T.
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Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended
as follows-
(a) by the insertion of the following paragraph (e) im-
mediately after paragraph (d) of subsection (1) thereof
"(e) to seize, remove and detain any aircraft, vehicle or vessel in which he finds any article which he has reasonable cause to suspect any person to be importing or exporting or attempting to import or export contrary to any enactment : Provided that no vessel exceeding 250 gross tons and no aircraft may be seized, removed and detained without the prior consent of the Colonial Secretary.";
(b) by the substitution of a colon for the full stop at the end of subsection (3) thereof and the addition of the following thereto-
8.
"Penalty a fine of five thousand dollars and imprison- ment for six months."'
Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition of the following paragraph thereto immediately
after paragraph (c) thereof
"[cf. 39 & 40 Vict. e. 36, B. 2691.
(d) the proof concerning the place whence any article shall have been brought, or that the same has been lawfully imported, removed, delivered or exported, or lawfully put into or out of any aircraft, vessel or other conveyance or lawfully transferred from one aircraft, vessel or other conveyance to another aircraft, vessel or other conveyance, shall lie on the defendant or the person claiming anything seized, as the case may be."*
of section
9. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment by the replacement of subsection (2) thereof by the following 12 of Cap. subsection-r
"(2) Such fees may be made to vary in accordance with the quantity, weight or value of the commodity imported or exported and shall be paid in such manner as may bu prescribed."
60.
10. The principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the Substitu- substitution of the following section for section 13 thereof
"Power of Governor
in Council to make regulations for the purposes of registra tion of importa and
exports.
13. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the following
purposes
(a) imposing upon importers, exporters, ship- owners and others the duty of furnishing such particulars as may be prescribed for the compilation of trade returns and statistics; (b) prescribing the form of any licence, permit certificate or declaration required to be issued or made under this Ordinance; (c) the verification in such manner as may be expedient of any particulars required to be furnished under any regulations made here- under.
(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of any such regulation shall be an offence and prescribe penalties therefor: Provided that no penalty so prescribed shall exceed a fine of two thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.
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tion of new section 13.