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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1940.

Supplementary Schedule,-contd.

SHORT TITLE.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

113. The

Liquors Ordinance, 1931. (No. 36 of 1931), -contd.

(b) the goods are→

(i) in a general bonded or a licensed warehouse; or

(ii) in a place licensed for the manufac ture of such goods; or

(iii) on railway premises and under the control of the railway authorities, if the nature of the goods has been disclosed to those authorities; or

(iv) in a ship, vehicle or aircraft, if the goods were imported, or are to be exported, in that ship, vehicle or aircraft and are duly entered in the manifest.

It shall be no defence to any charge under this sub-section or sub-section (1) or (2) that the possession or control of the accused was a joint possession or control.

(6) No person, not being authorized so 2 & 3 to do by permit or otherwise in accordance Will. 4, with the provisions of this Ordinance and c. 16, s. 10. any regulations thereunder, shall remove, deliver or send out any dutiable goods from his stock, custody or possession; nor shall any person take, receive or have in his stock, custody or possession any dutiable goods removed or delivered thereto in con- travention of this sub-section.

(7) No person shall, on his own account or on behalf of another, sell, offer for sale or buy any dutiable goods which are in this Colony unless the goods are—

(a) in a general bonded or licensed ware- house: or

(b) in the place where they were manu- factured: or

(e) in the ship, vehicle or aircraft in which they were imported; or

(d) on the railway premises.

(8) The onus of proving that dutiable goods are in course of direct removal from any place, ship, vehicle or aircraft to any other place, ship, vehicle or aircraft shall be upon the accused.

relanded.

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14. If any goods to which this Ordinance applies Goods

are placed on board any ship, vehicle or embarked aircraft for exportation or as stores and, for export except with the express permission of the not to be Superintendent in writing, are not duly 39 & 40 exported or are unshipped or removed or Vict. c. 36, relanded in any part of this Colony, the $. 120. master of the ship, the person in charge of Vict. c. 21, the aircraft and the driver of the vehicle, and any person by whom or by whose Schedule. orders or means the goods are so unship- ped, removed or relanded, shall be guilty of an offence, and the ship, if less than sixty tons net register, vehicle or aircraft, not being a public transport or state air- craft, may by order of a magistrate be forfeited.

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