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Customs (Amendment) Law (No. 35 of 1974) - Sect 11

Amendment of section 34 of the principal enactment

11. Section 34 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following new subsection:-
(1) No goods shall be unladen from any ship until a sufferance shall have been granted by the Collector for the landing of the same, and no goods shall be landed except at the place appointed and expressed in such sufferance; and all goods so landed shall be taken and deposited in the warehouse of the Republic, and within three clear days from the date of landing the importer shall make a full and complete entry thereof as hereinafter provided, and shall either pay down all duties which shall be due and payable on such goods, or shall duly warehouse the said goods, or, if the goods be free of duty, shall so enter the same; and in default of such entry being made and the said goods being removed within three clear days as aforesaid, such goods shall during such time as they may remain in the warehouse be liable to additional rent at such rate as may be fixed by the Minister by regulation under section 15; and all goods unladen, landed, or removed without such sufferance, or contrary to the directions in such sufferance, shall be forfeited.".


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