98 Customs Formalities Regulations

• Author: Ralph Hone
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CHAPTER 98.

CUSTOMS FORMALITIES REGULATION.

AN ACT TO CARRY OUT CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION RELATING TO THE SIMPLIFICATION OF CUSTOMS FORMALITIES SIGNED AT GENEVA ON THE THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER 1923.

[9th April 1925.1

1. This Act may be cited as The Customs Formalities Regulation Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'Comptroller' includes the collector of revenue of any of the Out Islands;

   'contracting states' includes any of the states signatory to the International Convention relating to the simplification of Customs Formalities signed at Geneva on the third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three;

   'goods' include wares and merchandise.

3. -(1) Except in cases in which their importation may be prohibited, and unless it is indispensable for the solution of any dispute that they should be produced, goods which form the subject of a dispute as to the application of the customs tariff or as to their origin, place of departure or value, must, at the request of the declarant, be at once placed at his disposal without waiting for the solution of the dispute:

   Provided that before such goods are released the declarant shall give such security by way of deposit or otherwise for the payment of customs duties or shall give such undertaking in respect of such goods as the Comptroller shall deem necessary.

   (2) The...