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2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— "container" includes any receptacle or vessel and any wrapper, packing,
cover or stopper;
"Director" means the Director of Commerce and Industry and includes
a deputy and assistant director,
"dutiable goods" means goods to which this Ordinance applies, which are not exempt from duty and on which the duty has not been paid, and includes goods on which duty has been paid if subsequently reimported;
"duty-paid goods" means goods on which the full duly prescribed by
law has been paid:
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"export" means to carry or cause to be carried out of the Colony by land, air or water and includes the export of anything carried of sent from any country and brought into the Colony by land, air or water for the sole purpose of being carried to another country after transhipment into another conveyance, but does not include transit
cargo:
"gallon" means the Imperial gallon;
"Government Chemist" means the person so appointed by the Governor
and includes such other person as the Director of Medical and Health Services may appoint to carry out duties under this Ordin-
ance;
"import" means to carry or cause to be carried into the Colony by land,
air or water;
"Licence" means a licence granted or issued under this Ordinance;
"manifest" means the manifest of a ship or aircraft, and in relation to a vehicle, the statement referred to in section 22 of goods imported or for export in such vehicles;
"manufacture” includes every kind of preparation, mixing and treatment
except packing and unpacking;
"master" includes every person, except a pilot, having command or
charge of any ship:
"member of the Preventive Service" means a person bolding an office specified in the First Schedule to the Preventive Service Ordinance, 1963:
"net register" means net registered tonnage or its equivalent calculated according to English rules under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1948;
"offence" means an offence against any of the provisions of this Ordin- ance and any regulations made thereunder, and includes any act or omission declared or deemed by any of the provisions of this Ordinance and any regulation made thereunder to be an offence;
"permit" means a permit granted or issued under this Ordinance;
"railway" means the Kowloon-Canton Railway. British Section, and
"by rail" means by means of the railway:
*ship" includes every description of vessel (not being or having the status of a vessel of war) used, or adapted for use, in navigation or for the carriage of goods or persons;
"transhipment cargo" means goods consigned from a foreign place to another foreign place which are to be offloaded from the incoming ship, vehicle, rain or aircraft pending onward carriage to the foreign destination in another ship, vehicle, train or aircraft;
"Iransit cargo" means goods which are destined for a foreign place and are passing through the Colony on the same ship or aircraft without transhipment:
"warehouse" means any premises or place or any part thereof specified by the Director either as a general bonded warehouse or as a licensed warehouse and set apart for storing only dutiable goods.
(2) In this Ordinance "Commonwealth" means the countries specified in the Schedule and for the purposes of this Ordinance goods schedule. shall be deemed to be-
(a) of Commonwealth origin, if they are proved to the satisfaction of the Director to have been grown, or produced in, any part of the Commonwealth; or
(6) of Commonwealth manufacture, if they are proved to the satis- faction of the Director to have been substantially manufactured in any part of the Commonwealth : But no goods shall be deemed to have been substantially manufactured within the Commonwealth unless in the opinion of the Director at least