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IMPORT AND EXPORT
Ord. No. 67/70
A373

(ae) providing for the forfeiture to the Crown by a magistrate of all or any of the sum of money deposited under regulations made under paragraph (ad);
(af) prescribing any thing which is to be or may be prescribed under this Ordinance; and
(ag) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of any such regulation shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor.

(3) Regulations made under this section may prescribe that a contravention or breach thereof shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars and imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

(4) No regulation made under paragraph (aa), (ab), (ac), (ad) or (ae) shall come into operation until it has been approved by resolution of the Legislative Council.

Power to levy by resolution of Legislative Council. 32. The Legislative Council may by resolution provide for the imposition of a levy upon any person required under this Ordinance to furnish information for the purpose of compiling statistics of overseas trade and to provide for the method of determination of the levy and the mode and time of payment thereof.

PART VIII.
Miscellaneous.

Evidentiary provisions. 33. (1) In any proceedings under this Ordinance it shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed that any cargo recorded in an import manifest furnished by—

(a) the master of a vessel;
(b) the commander of an aircraft;
(c) the person in charge of a vehicle; or
(d) the owner of such vessel, aircraft or vehicle,

has been imported in or on such vessel, aircraft or vehicle.

(2) In any proceedings under this Ordinance it shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed that any cargo recorded in an export manifest furnished by—

(a) the master of a vessel;
(b) the commander of an aircraft;