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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 5, 1935.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 523.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1930. (MOTOR SPIRIT).

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3 and 5 of the Motor Spirit Ordinance, 1930, the Governor in Council adds the following heading and regulation after regulation 8 of the Drawback regulations contained in the First Schedule to the said Ordinance :-

Drawback on Mixtures or Admixtures.

Subject to the conditions set forth hereunder, a drawback of twenty-five cents per gallon shall be paid on any duty-paid light oil content of mixtures or admixtures exported from the Colony.

CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT OF DRAWBACK.

1. No drawback shall be paid to any person other than a manufacturer of varnishes, lacquers, thinners and other preparations containing light oils who is a licensed importer and who has been approved by the Superintendent as exporter on drawback.

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2. No drawback shall be allowed except to the person who originally paid the duty.

3. No drawback shall be allowed on any light oil content on which the full duty has not been paid.

4. No drawback shall be allowed on quantities having a light oil content of less than four gallons in any one exported consignment.

5. No drawback shall be allowed on the light oil content of any varnishes, lacquers, thinners or other preparations which have not been wholly prepared, compounded or made in the Colony by the exporter.

6. No drawback shall be payable unless the claim is made within three working days of the date mentioned in the Export on Drawback Permit as the day of shipment or when the ship left the port.

7. Every application made with a view to obtaining drawback on any light oil content shall contain a declaration by the applicant, which shall be attached to the export permit and shall be signed by such declarant in the presence of a witness, to the effect that the goods in respect of which drawback on the light oil content is being claimed have been actually shipped for export and are not intended to be relanded in the Colony.