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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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TELEC.O. 882

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

Penalties,

regulations shall provide. The said regulations shall be published in the Gazette, and shall thereupon become as valid as if inserted in this Ordinance.

4. Any person committing a breach of this Ordinance, or of any regulation made thereunder, shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to the forfeiture of any article in respect of which such breach is committed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 27th day of October, 1904.

S. B. C. Ross,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 31st day of October, 1904.

Enclosure 2 in No. 31.

F. H. MAY,

Colonial Secretary.

Report on Ordinance No. 14 of 1904.

Attorney-General's Office, Hong Kong, October 29, 1904.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled an Ordinance to give effect to Article VIII. of the Brussels Sugar Convention, 1902, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.

The purpose of this measure is to give effect in the Colony to Article VIII. of the Brussels Sugar Convention, 1902, by empowering the Governor in Council to make such regulations as he shall deem necessary for the said purpose, and by prohibiting the importation of bounty-fed sugar.

Enclosure 3 in No. 31.

REGULATIONS.

E. H. SHARP,

Attorney-General.

1. No sugar shall be imported into the Colony except at the Port of Victoria, and the master of every vessel having on board as cargo any sugar shall, on arrival, forthwith furnish to the Harbour Master a manifest of such sugar.

2. All sugar imported or brought into the Colony shall be accompanied by the following evidence of origin:-A certificate indicating (A) the kind and quantity of the sugar; (B) the kind, number and marks of the packages; and (c) the country of origin.

3. The said certificate shall, where possible, be signed and issued by the fiscal authority having jurisdiction in the country of origin or of despatch, such fiscal authority being duly empowered for that purpose by his Government. Where there is no such fiscal authority, the said certificate may be signed and issued by a British Consular Officer in the country of origin or of despatch.

4. Inasmuch as it is possible that sugar may occasionally reach Hong Kong before the arrival of the certificates of origin relating to the same, and it would he inconvenient and expensive to importers if such sugar were not delivered until the arrival of the said certificates, it shall be competent for the Superintendent of Imports and Exports to issue a permit for the delivery of such sugar on the security of a deposit of such amount, or of a bond in such penalty, as he may think fit for the due production of the said certificates within a prescribed period, pro- vided that he sees no reason for suspecting that the sugar emanates from a prohibited country.

5. Whenever any sugar is exported from the Colony the Superintendent of Imports and Exports shall, on demand, if satisfied as to the country of origin of such sugar, issue to the exporter a certificate indicating (A) the kind and quantity of the sugar; (B) the kind, number and marks of the packages; and (c) the country of origin.

6. There shall be paid to the Superintendent of Imports and Exports for every permit and for every certificate of origin granted under these regulations a fee of $5.

Where a breach of the Ordinance or of any of these regulations is com- mitted by a company or corporation, the secretary or manager thereof for the time being shall be liable for such contravention and to the consequences thereof. 8. The word "sugar" in these regulations shall not include molasses or sugar- sweetened products.

Enclosure 4 in No. 31,

REGULATIONS for Bounty-fed Sugar in Transit.

1. Bounty fed sugar arriving at the port for transhipment will be permitted to be warehoused, provided that:-

(A) Particulars of such goods shall have been furnished at the Imports and Exports Office in the form set forth in Schedule A, and a permit for removal has been granted by the Superintendent, Imports and Exports Office, to the agent of the vessel as a warrant for the unlading of the

same.

(B) No such goods shall be unladen from any ship until the conditions of the preceding section shall have been complied with, and a warrant granted for the unlading of the same, and no goods shall be so unladen except under the supervision of an officer of the Imports and Exports Office or the police, and all such goods unladen contrary to the regu lations of this section shall be seized and forfeited.

2. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, Imports and Exports, to grant permission for such goods to be warehoused in some suitable building to be approved by the Government as a temporary warehouse for the reception thereof, which building shall be secured under Government locks or by bond entered into to the satisfaction of the Government with the owner of such building, that will safe- guard such goods from being tampered with while being so warehoused.

3. In the event of its being shown by the agent of any ship that there is not any building available as a temporary warehouse for such goods sought to be landed under the provisions of these regulations, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Imports and Exports to accept any other warehouse for the storage of such goods. Provided that such agent shall first enter into a hond to the satisfaction of the Superintendent, Imports and Exports, for the payment of such sum as he may determine, the condition of which bond being that the goods to be so landed from the ship named in the bond shall be conveyed forthwith to the warehouse specified in the bond, that during the period of being warehoused such goods shall not be interfered with, and that no such goods shall be reshipped unless by permission of the Superintendent, Imports and Exports.

4. Before any such goods specified in Schedule A shall be delivered for reshipment in any ship, the agent for such goods shall deliver to the Superintendent. of Imports and Exports a requisition in writing describing the said goods with marks and numbers of the packages containing the same, the name of the port of destination of such goods, and the name of the person to whom the goods are to he consigned; the agent shall at the same time pay all warehousing dues and charges as provided for if such goods are warehoused in a Government building.

5. No such goods shall be delivered for the purpose of reshipment in any ship until the conditions of the preceding section shall have been complied with and until the agent has been granted a permit for removal by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, and no such goods shall be removed and reshipped in any ship except under the supervision of an officer of the Imports and Exports Office or of the police.

6. The Superintendent, Imports and Exports, his staff and the police shall have access at all times to any such goods in transit, and any person who shall refuse to allow such access or shall in any way hinder or obstruct any such officer in inspecting such goods shall be deemed guilty of a contravention of these regu- lations.

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