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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

Short title.

Definition of "Exporter".

Duty to be paid.

Governor-in-

Council may in crease or reduce amount of duty.

Port.

A BILL.

INTITULED

AN ORDINANCE TO RAISE EXPORT DUTIES ON PALM KERNELS.

[

1916.]

BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Palm Kernels Export Duty Ordinance, 1916.

2. In this Ordinance the term "exporter " shall include any owner or other person for the time being possessed of or beneficially interested in any palm kernels from the time when an application is made for authority to export the same under section 5 hereof, or from the time the same are placed in any boat, canoe, or other craft whatsoever, for the purpose of being exported, whichever time shall first occur until such palm kernels shall be conveyed out of the territorial waters of the Colony.

3. Subject as provided in section 13 hereof there shall be raised, levied and collected and paid unto His Majesty for the Government of the Gold Coast Colony an export duty at the rate of two shillings per hundredweight or part thereof net weight on all palm kernels exported from the Colony.

4. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time by Order to increase, or reduce, as he thinks fit the amount of duty made payable by this Ordinance and on such Order being made the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply as if the duty so fixed were inserted in place of the duty specified in section 3 hereof.

5. A person desiring to export palm kernels may apply to the Senior Customs Officer at Application for authority to ex- the port from which he desires to export them for an authority to so export. Such application shall be in duplicate in form A in the Schedule hereto and shall set forth the name and address of the exporter, the place and the person to whom such palm kernels are to be consigned, the quantity of palm kernels he intends to export, a description of the bags or receptacles and all marks thereon in which he intends to export such palm kernels, the gross and net weight per package, and the port from which, the ship on which, and the occasion of the calling of such ship at such port on which he intends to export such kernels. The duplicate when signed and sealed by such officer shall be the authority for shipment.

Authority to ex- port.

l'alm kernels

not to be shipped

without author

ity, or except in specified manner.

Palm kernels

only to be shipped on ship and occa slon specified in authority.

Master, owner

and agent guilty

of misdemeanour

if palm kernels

shipped without

or not in accord-

ance with author-

ity.

6. On receipt of such application and a bond with such securities and in such terms and on such conditions as such officer may require for the passing of the proper Bills of Entry and the payment of the duty such officer shall issue an authority as set forth in section 5 hereof for the exportation of such palm kernels.

Such bond may be given in respect of each particular consignment or may be given. generally with respect to any number or all consignments.

7. No palm kernels shall be placed in any boats, canoes or other craft whatsoever or carried to any ship or shipped or transhipped for exportation unless the authority specified in section 6 hereof has been obtained and except at such places and at such times and in the presence of such officers as provided and required by law with respect to the importation. of goods.

8. The master, owner, and agent of an owner of any ship on which palm kernels shall be placed for the purpose of exportation, before an authority to export the same shall have been issued under section 6 hereof, or in greater quantity or in bags or packages other than specified and described in such authority shall be guilty of a misdeamenour.

9. No palm kernels shall be placed for exportation on a ship other than the ship specified

in any authority to export such kernels, and no palm kernels shall be placed on a ship for exportation at any time except on the occasion of calling at the port specified in such authority.

The master, owner, and agent of an owner of a ship on which palm kernels shall be placed contrary to the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

10. The master of any steamer taking palm kernels from any port in the Colony shall Master to deliver deliver to the Officer of Customs before leaving such port a manifest showing the marks, manifest of palm numbers, and quantities of all kernels which he has taken on board.

kernels shipped.

in 48 hours of ex-

11. Bills of Entry in the Form of Schedule B hereto shall be delivered to such Officer Bills of entry to of Customs by the exporter within forty-eight hours exclusive of Sundays and Public Holidays be delivered with- after the exportation of such kernels and the particulars set forth therein shall be supported portation. by the Bill of Lading signed by the master of the Exporting Steamer or such other evidence as the Comptroller of Customs may require.

12. In the case of kernels shipped to places outside the British dominions the duty Time at which shall be paid at the time of delivering such Bills of Entry, and in the case of kernels shipped duty shall be to places outside the Colony but within the British dominious the duty shall, subject as

paid. provided in section 13 hereof, be paid within four months of the date of shipment or such further time as may be allowed by the Comptroller of Customs..

13. In case an exporter of palm kernels shall produce to the Comptroller of Customs No duty payable within four months from the date of exportation thereof, or within such further period as in respect of the Comptroller may allow a certificate signed by an owner of, or the Secretary of, any crushed at a mill

palm kernels corporation owning, or a manager of any firm owning a mill in any part of His Majesty's in British Domi- Dominions, certifying that such palm kernels have been delivered and crushed at such mill, nions no duty shall be payable in respect of such palm kernels.

It shall be lawful for the Comptroller of Customs to allow a variation in the amount

of kernels specified in such certificate from the amount exported from the Colony, provided that such variation does not exceed ten per cent. of the amount exported, and thereupon such certificate shall have effect as if the full amount exported had been specified therein.

14. The exporter and any person concerned in any contravention of the provisions of Failure to comply this Ordinance, or wilfully or negligently failing to comply with such provisions, shall be with Ordinance a guilty of a misdemeanour.

misdemeanour.

15. A misdemeanour under this Ordinance shall be triable summarily, and any person Punishment for

so convicted thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to a term misdemeanour.

of imprisonment, with or without hard labour not exceeding one year or to both.

port on the

SCHEDULE.

FORM A.

I. We the undersigned hereby request authority to export on the ship from the port of*.

Here state num-

..on the occasion of such ship calling at that tion of recepta ..day of...

ber and descrip-

cles.

.or "Insert place.

within fourteen days thereafter,. each weighing..

X.

.marked

.lbs gross,

and containing.

.Ibs

.at

+Insert country.

Insert address.

net of Palm Kernels and consigned to..

.in.

Signed..

Exporter (or agent for Exporter.)

oft..

Authority given

Senior Customs Officer

at..

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SCHEDULE

FORM B.