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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 27, 1930.

Permits generally.

Second

Schedule. Forms Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9.

Export permits.

Permits.

36.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to issue the following permits :-

(a) to remove duty-paid light oils from a ship or from the Railway premises or from a general bonded or licensed warehouse;

(b) to remove dutiable light oils from a ship to a licensed warehouse or from a general bonded or licensed warehouse to a general bonded warehouse or to a licensed ware- house;

(c) to remove dutiable light oils from a ship or from the Railway premises or from a general bonded or licensed warehouse for export; (d) such other permits as the Superintendent

may consider necessary.

(2) Such permits may be in the respective forms in the Second Schedule or in such other form as the Superintendent may prescribe.

(3) Before issuing any permit it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to demand the production of all or any invoices, bills of lading or other documents relating to the light oils in question, and the person applying for the permit shall on such demand produce all such documents.

(4) Every person who applies for any export permit shall submit to the Superintendent the application and permit in triplicate, and every person who applies for any other permit shall submit to the Superin- tendent the application and permit in duplicate.

(5) Every application for a permit under this Ordinance shall be signed by the applicant, and if the applicant is a body corporate or a firm the application shall be signed also by some employé or agent of such body corporate or firm, and in the case of a Chinese firm the application shall also be chopped with the chop of the firm.

(6) Every person who has obtained a permit under this Ordinance and who has not availed himself thereof on the date for which it was issued shall return such permit to the Superintendent within twenty-four hours after such date or so soon there- after as the office of the Superintendent is open.

37.-(1) Export permits shall be issued in duplicate and the exporter shall procure a receipt for the light oils in question to be indorsed on one copy of such permit by the master or mate of the ship on which the light oils are to be exported and shall forthwith deliver such copy so indorsed to the Superintendent.

(2) The Superintendent may, instead of issuing the duplicate copy of the export permit to the exporter, deliver it to a revenue officer who shall thereupon accompany the light oils on board the ship on which they are to be exported.

(3) The Superintendent may refuse to issue any export permit until such time before the proposed sailing of the ship on which the light oils are to be exported as he may consider reasonable.

(4) The Superintendent may refuse to issue any export permit to export dutiable light oils as ships stores unless the application for the permit is indorsed by the master or agent of the ship to the effect that the light oils are for ships use.