10. Section 32 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:-
| 32. If any ship shall arrive at any port in Sri Lanka without clearance or other paper which it is usual to grant at the place or places from which such ship shall have come, the master shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred rupees, or if any goods entered on any clearance, or other paper granted at the place from which any ship have come, shall not be found on board such ship, or if the quantity found be short, and the deficiency be not duly accounted for, or if goods sent out of the ship be not landed at the appointed places, the master shall, in respect of any goods which are missing or deficient and not accounted for, be liable, if such goods are chargeable with duty, and if such duty can be ascertained, to a penalty of five hundred rupees or a sum not exceeding twice the amount of the duty chargeable thereon, whichever is the greater amount, or if such duty cannot be ascertained or if such goods are not chargeable with duty, to a penalty not exceeding two hundred rupees for each missing or deficient package, and the Collector is authorized to require the payment of such penalty, and to decline the granting of a clearance outwards to the master of any vessel so liable, and refusing to pay such penalty: |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts