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and the godowns at West Point and Kennedy [First

Town Praya, the property of the China Schedule Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd., contd.]

and the godowns, the property of the China Navigation Steamship Co., Ltd., situated at Nos. 328 to 332, Des Voeux Road West.

2. For the purposes of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1931, and of all regulations made thereunder, the aforesaid owners of the above mentioned premises shall be deemed to be the respective persons in charge of the general bonded warehouses approved and appointed under regulation No. 2 of the these regula- tions, and shall be responsible for the observance and performance of all the duties devolving upon such persons in charge.

4. Every person in charge on receiving a request from the master, owner, or agent of any ship lying within the limits of the harbour as defined by the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, or by any Ordinance amending the same, shall forthwith remove from such ship into his general bonded warehouse all such duti- able goods as such master, owner, or agent may require to be so removed, and shall store such duti- able goods in his general bonded warehouse to the order of such master, owner, or agent.

5. Any person in charge, on receiving a request from any person holding a permit for the removal of dutiable goods, which permits the holder to store such dutiable goods in a general bonded warehouse, shall forthwith store the same in his general bonded warehouse.

No such dutiable goods shall be received for storage until a permit issued by the Superintendent shall have been produced.

6.—(1) Dutiable goods may be divided into such classes as the person in charge, with the approval of the Superintendent, may determine, having regard to the rules of the Fire Insurance Association of Hong Kong in so far as such regulations are compatible with the regulations for the storage of inflammable liquids made under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, or any Ordinance amending the same or substituted therefor.

(2) All dutiable goods placed on storage shall be stored class by class in a portion of the premises specially set apart for that purpose by the person in charge, with the approval of the Superintendent.

(3) All dutiable goods shall be stowed in such a manner that easy access may be had to any portion thereof, and in such classes as the Superintendent may appoint subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this regulation,

(4) In that portion of the premises specially set apart for the storage of dutiable goods no other cargo shall be stored unless special permission has first been obtained from the Superintendent.

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(5) No package of dutiable goods shall be opened except in the presence of a revenue officer. deficiencies discovered on examination shall be report- ed within 24 hours to the Superintendent.

(6) No empty packages shall be stored in the same place together with dutiable goods.

(7) Where the contents of a number of packages of any one kind of dutiable goods in the same consign-