(4) the construction, maintenance, management and control of

licensed premises;

(e) books and records to be kept for the purposes of this Ordin

ance, the manner in which they are to be kept, and the periods for which they are to be preserved:

(f) the containers in which goods to which this Ordinance applies may be imported, exported, kept, sold or supplied and for the labelling or marking of such goods and containers; (g) fees;

(4) the payment of fees, duties and drawback, and for the refund of duty on goods destroyed in or exported from the Colony with the consent of the Director or on such other goods as the Legislative Council may by resolution direct;

(0) dispensing with or relaxing any of the provisions of this Ordin- ance or any regulations made or duties imposed thereunder relating to goods--

(i) used or intended to be used in the sacrament, or solely for educational, scientific, medical or charitable purposes:

(ii) used or intended to be used in navigation, air or land traffic through or outside the Colony, or as ships' or aircraft stores;

(iii) imported by passengers in their baggage for their own use*

(iv) exported and subsequently re-imported, or to such other goods as the Legislative Council may by resolution direct;

(v) used or intended to be used as samples or advectising matter of no commercial value and not intended for resale;

(vi) which are bona fide gifts seat to residents of this Colony and are not intended for resale;

()the furnishing of bonds, or cash or other securities, by licensees and others to secure the due payment of duty and the observ. ance of the provisions of this Ordinance and any regulations made thereunder and the conditions of licences;

(k) the examination of the baggage and goods of persons entering

or leaving the Colony;

(1) requiring importers and exporters of goods to which this Ordinance applies to furnish certificates relating to the goods from places outside the Colony;

(w) marking by means of chemicals and coloration of hydrocarbon

oils;

(n) matters in which the Director may give directions for the pro- tection of the revenue and the carrying out of the provisions of

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this Ordinance and any regulations made thereunder, and for empowering him to give such directions:

(c) anything which is by this Ordinance to be prescribed or pro-

vided for by regulations;

(p) generally carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that a con- travention of any regulation shall be an offence and prescribe a penalty therefor:

Provided that no penalty so prescribed shall exceed a line of a hundred thousand dollars and imprisonment for two years.

(3) Any regulation made under this Ordinance may provide that in any criminal proceedings for a contravention thereof-

(a) it shall be for the person charged with such contravention to

provo certain facts; or

(5) facts may be presumed, with or without proof of other facts,

until the contrary is proved.

(4) Any regulation made in exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (3) shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.

7. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and any regula- Grant of tions made therestoder-

(a) the Director or other officer deputed by him in that bebalf may in his absolute discretion grant and issue licences or permits on payment of the fees, for the periods prescribed, or if no such period is prescribed in any case, for periods of one year at a time, and may renew such licences for like periods and grant and issue permits in prescribed form,

(b) an officer deputed by the Director to grant a licence or perunit

may-

(i) in granting the licence or permit impose such special conditions or restrictions in particular cases as he thinks fit

(ii) permit the transfer of the licence or permit from one person to another or, if the licence was issued for certain premises, the substitution therefor of other premises, or may amend the licence or permit, ou sufficient cause being shown to his satisfaction and on payment of the fec prescribed for such transfer, substitution or amendment and of such fee, or such proportionate part of such fee, payable under paragraph (a) as the change may involve;

(iii) give such directions to licensees in writing in prescribed matters as he may deem necessary for the protection of the

revenue;

licences and permils.

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