184514-1931-Supplementary-Draft-Bills--Tobacco — Page 27

[First Schedule contd.]

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15. Tobacco imported on board any ship for the purpose of being consumed by the crew or passengers of the ship, and any tobacco taken on board as ship's stores, shall, while the ship remains in the waters of the Colony, be kept in a locked place of safety under the custody and control of the master, except only a quantity sufficient for the consumption of the officers, crew and passengers for a period of 24 hours. Such tobacco shall be entered in a separate register or stock book, and a copy of the balance in such stock book shall be forwarded to the Superintendent together with the prescribed import statement. The register of ship's stores shall be kept up-to-date and shall be produced to any Revenue Officer for inspec- tion on demand,

16. Any Revenue Officer shall be permitted to inspect and examine any such tobacco and to place seals on any package, or place in which they are stored.

No such seal so affixed shall without the permission of a Revenue Officer be broken or removed whilst the ship is in the waters of the Colony.

17. Before any permit is issued for removal of any tobacco to a ship about to put to sea, for use as ship's stores, the exporter shall enter into a personal bond in a sum assessed by the Superintendent, to produce to the Superintendent the receipt mentioned in section 38 (1) of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1931.

18. The receipt of tobacco as ship's stores shall be duly entered in the ship's export statement furnished to the Superintendent under section 28 of the said Ordinance.

19. Every application for a permit to export tobacco as ship's stores shall be in the form given hereunder, and shall be in addition to an application in Form No. 8 of the Second Schedule to the Tobacco Ordinance, 1981, made by the supplier.

FORM.

Application for issue of a permit to export tobacco

as ship's stores.

I....

charge of ship's stores of S.S.

hereby declare that

1. This ship is sailing for

on

at

Purser or Officer in

2. The duration of the voyage is

3. The surplus tobacco in store is,

Smoking Tobacco

Cigarettes

Cigars

Chinese Tobacco

.m.

days.

pounds. (number).

(number).

pounds.