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"'domestic premises" means any premises or place used exclusively for
residential purposes and constituting a separate household unit;
"export" means to take or cause to be taken out of Hong Kong any
Article other than an article in transit:
"import" means to bring or cause to be brought into Hong Kong any
article other than an article in transit;
"licence" means a licence issued under regulations made under section 3; "member of the Customs and Excise Service" means any person holding an office specified in the First Schedule to the Customs and Excise Service Ordinance;
"permit" means a permit issued under regulations made under section 3; "registered" means registered under regulations made under section 3; "reserved commodity" means any commodity specified as a reserved com-
modity under regulations made under section 3;];
"sale" and "purchase" include a sale and purchase by barter,
"sale by retail" means every sale of an article other than a sale by
wholesale;
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"sale by wholesale" means any sale of an article in whatever quantity for resale in the same form of state or as part of a manufactured product; "vehicle" means every means of conveyance or of transit or other mobile apparatus used or capable of being used on land whether on roads or rails and, in any way whatever, drawn or propeiled or carried; "vessel" includes every description of vessel used in navigation for the carriage of persons or articles, whether or not the vessel is mechanically propelled and whether or not the vessel is towed or pushed by another vessel,
(2) This Ordinance shall not apply to articles in transit.
3. (3) The Governor in Council may make regulations for all or any of the following matters~~-
(a) specifying any article to be a reserved commodity for any purpose: (6) prohibiting or controlling the sale or purchase of any reserved commodity for the purpose of resale in or export from Hong Kang
(c) regulating or controlling the maximum price of any reserved
commodity:
(d) probibiting, regulating or controlling the import or export of any
reserved commodity;
(e) prohibiting, regulating or controlling the movement or distribution
of any reserved commodity:
(A) prohibiting, regulating or controlling the storage of any reserved
commodity;
(8) restricting the sale by wholesale or retail of any reserved com- modity to persons registered or holding licences or permits issued under the regulations:
(A) restricting the sale of any reserved commodity either by an in- dividual or generally by all persons dealing in such reserved commodity;
() prohibiting, regulating or controlling the manufacture, processing or production of any reserved commodity either generally or as regards form, shape, quantity, quality, constituents or otherwise:
(f) the issue of licences, permits and certificates and the registration
of persons and premises for the purposes of this Ordinance;
(A) the examination of reserved commodities stored or kept in any
promises or in or on any vessel, aircraft or vehicle by or où behalf of any person;
( information and particulars to be given in respect of reserved
commodities;
(m) fees and charges;
(n) appeal to the Governor against any decision of the Director:
(o) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions and
purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) Regulations under this section may provide that a contravention of any such regulation shall be an offence and shall be punishable on conviction by a ̃dne not exceeding $100,000 and imprisonment for a terz not exceeding 2 years,
L The Director may authorize in writing any public officer to Authorized exercise all of the powers conferred on an authorized officer by this officers. Ordinance or such of those powers as the Director may specify.
4. (J) The Governor may give such directions as he thinks fil, either Diretor and generally or in any particular case, with respect to the exercise by the autbocked Director or an authorized officer of any powers, functions or duties under 10 Governor'ı this Ordinance.
(2) The Director and every authorized officer shall, in the exercise or performance of any powers, functions or duties under this Ordinance, comply with any directions given by the Governor under subsection (1).
officers nubiect
directions.
← (1) in any proceedings for an offence under this Ordinance, # Productiont of copy of any document issued under this Ordinance, certified by the copy documents. Director to be a true copy of such document, shall be prima facie evidence
of the contents of the original document.
(2) Any such copy purporting to be certified by the Director shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have been certified by him.
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7. In any proceedings for an offence under this Ordinance and in Burden of any proceedings for the forfeiture of any article by virtue of section 9, the proof that burden of proving that any reserved commodity is an article in transit commodity la shall be upon the defendant in such criminal proceedings and the claimant in bod. in such forfeiture proceedings.
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Notwithstanding anything in the Magistrales Ordinance, a com- Time Delacom plaint may be made or an information laid in reapect of an offence under for admilial This Ordinance punishable only on summary conviction within 2 years (cap. 227) from the time when the matter of such complaint or information respec- tively arose.
9. Any reserved commodity in respect of which an offence under Forfeiture. this Ordinance has been committed shall, whether or not any person has been convicted of such offence, be liable to forfeiture under Part VI of the Import and Export Ordinance and sections 27, 28 and 30 of that (Cap. 60.) Ordinance shall apply accordingly,
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