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109 PDFTitle:DUTIABLE COMMODITIES ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:21Heading:Penalty on not bringing to at stations; or carrying away officersVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) If any ship arriving in or departing from Hong Kong or on which any goods to which this Ordinance applies are being imported or exported does not bring to at such stations as may be appointed by the Commissioner for examination or for the landing of officers from such ships, the master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 5. (Amended 3 of 1970 s.13; L.N. 294 of 1982; L.N. 338 of 1995)
(2) If any ship departs from any such station without the knowledge of the proper member of the Customs and Excise Service or from Hong Kong with any member of the Customs and Excise Service or other Government officer on board, without the consent of such member or officer, the master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 5. (Amended L.N. 338 of 1995)
(3) This section shall apply to aircraft and vehicles and persons in charge thereof as it applies to ships and the masters of ships.

[cf. 1876 c. 36 s. 136 U.K.; 1883 c. 55 s. 5 U.K.]