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Import, Export and Landing Regulations.

1. In these regulations and in the Schedule thereto "package" shall include any box, basket, barrel, cask, case, container, receptacle, sack, bag, wrapper or other thing in which tobacco is placed for the purpose of carriage, consignment, importation, exportation or storage.

IMPORT OF WATER-BORNE TOBACCO.

2. No tobacco shall be imported by any vessel under 300 tons register tonnage as ascertained in the manner prescribed by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. Provided that the Superintendent, in his sole discretion, shall have the power to grant a licence subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule to these regulations for the import of such tobacco by approved ships of over 60 tons register tonnage in the case of steam and motor vessels, and over 1,000 piculs capacity in the case of junks, when such ships are employed on a regular route, and after security to his satisfaction shall have been furnished by the intended licensee.

3. All licensed junks which have no special wharf at which to discharge their cargo, shall, if their cargo includes tobacco, on entering the waters of the Colony, proceed by the most direct course possible to the Victoria junk anchorage as defined in Table S in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, and shall remain there until the cargo of tobacco shall have been completely discharged.

As long as any such tobacco remains on board no cargo shall be discharged elsewhere.

4. No tobacco shall be imported into the Colony on any ship unless such tobacco has already been entered in the manifest or in a register of ship's stores, and duly appears therein.

IMPORT OF TOBACCO.

5. No tobacco shall be imported except in closed packages weighing not less than 30 pounds gross.

This regulation shall not apply to any package of less than 22 pounds gross coming into the Colony and containing tobacco for the private use of the addressee and not for sale.

6. No person shall remove from Kowloon Railway Station any tobacco without a permit in Form 6 in the Second Schedule to the Tobacco Ordinance, 1931, in the case of tobacco on which duty is to be paid before such removal, and except in accordance with the conditions of such permit, or a permit in Form 7 in the said Schedule in the case of tobacco to be stored in a general bonded or licensed warehouse, and except in accordance with the conditions in such permit contained.

EXPORT OF TOBACCO.

7. No person shall remove, for the purpose of export, any tobacco from any general bonded or licensed warehouse except in closed packages weighing. not less than 30 pounds gross.

This regulation shall not apply to any package of less than 22 pounds gross forwarded to an addressee and containing tobacco for his private use and not for sale.

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