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Goods em- barked for

export not to be relanded.

39 & 40 Vicl. £36, s. 120

42 & 43 Viet. c. 21, s. $

and Schedule,

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(3) This section shall apply notwithstanding that the goods are the property of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Colony or form part of the estate of a bankrupt or deceased person or are sold by order of the court,

19. (1) If any goods to which this Ordinance applies are placed on board any ship, vehicle, train or aircraft for exportation or as stores and, except with the express permission of the Director in writing, are pot duly exported or are unshipped or removed or relanded in any part of the Colony, the master of the ship, the person in charge of the vehicle, train or aircraft and any person by whom or by whose orders or means the goods are so unshipped, removed or relanded, shall be guilty of an offence, and the ship, if less than two hundred and fifty tons net register, vehicle, train or aircraft, not being a public transport or state aircraft, may by order of a magistrale be forfeited.

(2) For the purpose of this section "public transport" in relation to "vehicle" shall mean "taxi" or "public omnibus" as defined in sub- (39 of 1957). section (2) of section 2 of the Road Traffic Ordinance, 1957.

Restrictions

on import and export.

Panelly on not bringing

to st stations, or carrying

away officers. 39 & 40 Vict. c. 36, s. 196

46 & 47 Vict. c. 35, 8. 5.

Import and export statements.

20. Except with the written permission of the Director. no goods to which this Ordinance applies shall-

(g) be imported or exported otherwise than by air, road, rail or sea and to or from such ports or places and by such routes, Or {5) be landed from or loaded or taken on any ship, aircraft, train

or vehicle elsewhere than at such places,

as the Director by notification in the Gazette may appoint.

21. (1) If any ship arriving in or departing from the Colony does not bring to at such stations as may be appointed by the Director for examination or for the landing of officers from such ships, the master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine of five thousand dollars.

(2) If any ship departs from any such station without the knowl- edge of the proper member of the Preventive Service or from the Colony with any member of the Preventive Service or other Government officer on board, without the consent of such member or officer, the master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall on suminary conviction be liable to a fine of five thousand dollars.

(3) This section shall apply to aircraft and vehicles and persons in charge thereof as it applies to ships and the masters of ships.

22. (1) The owners, charterers or agents of every ship, aircraft or vehicle, in which goods to which this Ordinance applies are imported or exported, or the master of every such ship, the person in charge of every such aircraft or the driver of every such vehicle shall, withia

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seven days or such longer period as the Director may specify, after the arrival in or departure from the Colony of such ship, aircraft or vehicle furoish to the Director at the office of the Director an accurate and complete statement of all such goods.

(2) The owners, charterers or agents of every ship or aircraft which arrives in or departs from this Colony having on board no goods to which this Ordinance applies, or the master of every such ship or the persons in charge of every such aircraft, shall, within twelve hours after such arrival or within twenty-four hours after such departure furnish to the Director or other prescribed officer at the office of the Director a statement that no such goods were carried in the ship or aircraft.

(3) Every statement furnished in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be in the prescribed form, signed by the party furnishing it, and shall contain such particulars, if any, as may be prescribed by regulations and such further particulars as the Director or other prescribed officer may require.

(4) Separate statements shall be furnished in respect of each class of goods specified in section 3 or by any resolution under that section: Provided that where no goods to which this Ordinance applies were carried a single statement to that effect shall suffice.

(3) If any statement is not furnished in accordance with, or is furnished in breach of, the provisions of this section, the owners, char- terers and agents of the ship, aircraft or vehicle, the master of the ship, the person in charge of the aircraft and the driver of the vehicle, in respect of which the statement is, or should have been, furnished. sball each and all be guilty of an offence.

23. (1) If any goods to which this Ordinance applies are in any Removal of ship, vehicle or aircraft or on the railway premises they shall not be goods from removed therefrom by, or discharged or delivered therefrom to, any vehicles or

ships. person except the licensee of a general bonded warehouse or the bolder aircraft. of a valid permit in that behalf or the servant of such permittee or licensee:

Provided that goods put on board any ship, vehicle or aircraft or on the railway premises under permit shall not be relanded or removed therefrom except under permit:

Provided also that this subsection shall not apply to duty-paid goods after their first removal within this Colony from the ship, vehicle or aircraft on which they were imported or from the railway premises.

(2) Where an offence of removing, discharging or delivering any goods from any ship, vehicle or aircraft contrary to subsection (1) is proved to have been committed, every person being an owner, charterer, agent, master or other person in charge or comprador of the ship.