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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 14, 1916.

Duliable tobacco

22. No dutiable tobacco shall be removed for export from any general bonded or licensed warehouse except removed for in closed packages permanently marked by stencil or otherwise on at least three sides with the words “For Export" in letters not less than three inches high.

export.

Dutiable

tobacco uot to be moved

except in

certain

quantities.

Restrictions

23. No person shall move any dutiable tobacco except in such quantities as may be approved by the Superinten- dent or may be appointed by regulations made under this Ordinance.

24-(1.) Except with the permission of the Superin- on possession tendent no person shall have in his possession custody or

control any dutiable tobacco nnless such tobacco is :-

of dutiable

tobacco.

Possession of

tobacco ille- gally im- ported

moved or manufac- tured.

Restrictions on sale of dutiable

tobacco.

Import statements to be furnished.

Export statements to be furnished..

Contents of import and export statements.

Licences generally,

(a) on board the ship on which it was imported ;

or

(6) on the Railway premises; or

(e) in a general bonded or licensed warehouse; or (d) on board the ship on which it is to be export-

ed; or

(e) under the immediate physical control of the licensee of a general bonded warehouse or his servant and in course of removal direct to such warehouse from the ship on which it was imported or from the Railway premises; or (f) under the immediate physical control of the holder of a removal permit or his servant and in course of removal in accordance with the conditions of such permit direct to the place to which removal is authorised by such permit; or (g) part of the contents of a mail and is either in the Post Office or is in course of removal direct to the Post Office from the ship on which it was imported.

(2.) The onus of proving that the tobacco was in course of such direct removal shall be on the person in whose possession custody or control such tobacco is found.

25. No person shall without the permission of the Superintendent receive intc or have in his possession cus- tody or control any tobacco which was illegally imported moved or manufactured.

26. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or buy any dutiable tobacco stored elsewhere than in a general bonded or licensed warehouse or on board the ship on which it was imported or on the Railway premises.

27. The owners, charterers, agents and master of every ship on which any tobacco is imported shall within four hours after the arrival of such ship in the waters of the Colony, or so soon thereafter as the office of the Superintendent is open, furnish to the Superintendent a true accurate and complete statement of all tobacco im- ported thereon.

28. The owners, charterers, agents and master of every ship on which any tobacco is exported shall within twenty-four hours after the departure of such ship furnish to the Superintendent a true accurate and complete state- ment of all tobacco exported thereon.

29. Every import or export statement furnished in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be signed by the party furnishing it and shall contain such particulars as may be appointed by the Governor in Council and in default of such appointment shall be in the respective forms in the Second Schedule hereto.

Licences.

30.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to issue the following licences :-

(a) General bonded warehouse licence.

(b) Licensed. warehouse licence.

(e) Manufacturers licence.

(d) Importers licence.

(e) Retailers licence.

(ƒ) Such other licences as the Governor in Council

may appoint.

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