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Forests. (Schedule.-Enactments repealed.)

[1878: Act VII.

Act VII of 1865 An Act to give effect to rules for So much as has not been repealed. the management and preserva

Act XIII of 1873 An Act to amend the law relating So much as has not been repealed. to timber floated down the rivers

of British Burma.

Regulation IX of The Arakan Hill District Laws So far as it relates to Acts VII of Regulation, 1874. 1865 and VII of 1869.

1874.

References to enactments repealed.

Saving of appointments, etc.

3. Interpretation.

4. Agent of owner of goods to be deemed owner for certain purposes.
5. When ship's agent may act for master.

CHAPTER II.

SECTIONS.

APPOINTMENT AND POWERS OF OFFICERS, ETC.

6. Appointment of Customs-officers.

Suspension and dismissal of such officers.

7. Delegation of powers under section 6.

Suspension and dismissal of subordinate officers.

8. Performance of duties of Customs-collector, where no Custom-house. 9. Power to make rules.

10. Customs-officers exempted from service on jury or inquest or as assess

ors.

CHAPTER III.

APPOINTMENT OF PORTS, WHARVES, CUSTOM-HOUSES,
BOARDING AND LANDING-STATIONS.

11. Power to appoint ports, wharves and custom-houses.

12. Power to declare places to be ports for coasting-trade.

13. Power to declare that foreign ports shall be regarded as customs-ports for certain purposes.

14. Power to declare warehousing ports.

15. Power to appoint public warehouses. 16. Power to license private warehouses. Form of application for license.

Revocation of license.

17. Stations for Customs-officers to board and land.

CHAPTER IV.

PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION. 18. Prohibitions.

19. Power to prohibit or restrict importation or exportation of goods.
19A. Detention and confiscation of goods whose importation is prohibited.

CHAPTER V.

CUSTOMS-DUTIES.

LEVY OF, AND EXEMPTION FROM,

20. Goods dutiable.

Proviso.

21. Goods partially composed of dutiable articles.

22. Power to fix tariff-values.

23. General power to exempt from customs-duties.

Power to authorize, in special cases, exemption from duty.

SECTIONS.

24. Baggage in actual use.

25. Re-imported articles of country-produce.

Proviso.

26. Excise-duty on importation of certain country-goods.

27. Goods derelict and wreck.

28. Country-provisions and stores may be shipped free of duty.

29. Owner to declare real value, etc., of goods in bill-of-entry or shippingbill.

Power to require production of invoice, etc.

30. "Real value" defined.

31. Examination of ad valorem goods.

32. Procedure where such goods are under-valued by owner.

33. Abatement allowed on damaged goods.

Reduced duty how determined.

34. Deterioration of tariff-value goods.

35. No abatement when duty is levied on quantity.

36. Restriction on amendment of bill-of-entry or shipping-bill.

37. Alteration of import-duty or tariff-valuation.

38. Alteration of export-duty or tariff-valuation.

39. Payment of duties short-levied or erroneously refunded.

40. No refund of charges erroneously levied or paid, unless claimed within three months.

41. Power to give credit for, and keep account-current of, duties and charges.

CHAPTER VI.
DRAWBACK.

42. Drawback allowable on re-export.

Conditions for grant of drawback.

43. Drawback on goods exported to customs-port and thence to foreign port. Proviso.

44. Drawback of duties on wine and spirit allowed for officers of Navy. 45. Persons entering such wine or spirit for drawback to declare name and rank of officer claiming same.

46. Transfer of wine or spirit from one Naval officer to another.

47. Provisions and stores for Her Majesty's Navy.

48. Indian Marine and Marine-survey.

49. (a) Power to declare what goods are identifiable,

(b) and to prohibit drawback in case of specified foreign port.

50. When no drawback allowed.

51. Time to claim drawback.

When payment made.

52. Declaration by parties claiming drawback.

SECTIONS.

CHAPTER VII.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF VESSELS.

Arrival and Entry of Vessels inwards.

53. Power to fix places beyond which inward-bound vessels are not to proceed until manifest delivered.

Delivery of manifest when vessel anchors below place so fixed.

54. Delivery of manifest where no place has been so fixed.

55. Signature and contents of manifest.

Amendment of errors in manifest.

56. Duty of person receiving manifest.

57. Bulk not to be broken until manifest, etc., delivered, and vessel entered inwards.

58. Master, if required, to deliver bill of lading, etc., to Customs-collector and answer questions.

59. Special pass for breaking bulk.

60. Manifest, etc., may be delivered by ship's agent.

Entry outwards, Port-clearance and Departure of Vessels.

61. Order for entry outwards to be obtained before export-cargo is shipped. 62. No vessel to depart without port-clearance.

No pilot to take charge of vessel proceeding to sea without production of port-clearance.

63. Application for port-clearance.

Master on applying for port-clearance to deliver documents and answer questions.

64. Power to refuse port-clearance.

65. Grant of port-clearance.

66. Grant of port-clearance on security of ship's agent.

CHAPTER VIII.

GENERAL PROVISIONS AFFECTING VESSELS IN PORT.

67. Power to depute Customs-officer to board ships.

Duty of such officer.

68. Officer and servant to be received.

Accommodation of officer and servant.

69. Officers of Customs to have free access to every part of ship, and may seal and secure goods.

Power to authorize search and opening of locks.

70. Goods not to be shipped, discharged or water-borne except in presence of officer.

71. Period allowed for discharge and shipment of cargo.

Consequence of exceeding same.

Allowance for pericd during which vessel is laid up.

72. Goods not to be landed, etc., on Sundays or holidays, without permission, nor except within fixed hours.

73. Goods not to be shipped, etc., except at wharves.

SECTIONS.

74. Power to exempt from sections 70 and 73.

75. Power to make rules regarding baggage and mails. Landing-fees.

76. Boat-note.

77. Goods water-borne to be forthwith landed or shipped. 78. Such goods not to be transhipped without permission. 79. Power to prohibit plying of unlicensed cargo-boats.

Issue of licenses and registration of cargo-boats.

80. Power to require goods to be weighed or measured on board before landing or after shipment.

CHAPTER IX.

OF DISCHARGE OF CARGO AND ENTRY INWARDS OF GOODS.

81. Discharge of cargo may commence on receipt of due permission. 82. Goods not to leave ship unless entered in manifest.

83. Procedure in respect of goods not landed within time allowed. 84. Power to land small parcels.

Notice regarding unclaimed packages.

85. Power to permit immediate discharge.

86. Entry for home-consumption or warehousing.

87. Assessment of dutiable goods.

88. Procedure in case of goods not cleared or warehoused within four months after entry of vessel.

Power to direct sale of perishable goods.

Proviso.

CHAPTER X.

OF CLEARANCE OF GOODS FOR HOME-CONSUMPTION.

89. Clearance for home-consumption.

CHAPTER XI.

WAREHOUSING.

Of the Admission of Goods into a Warehouse.

90. Application to warehouse.

91. Form of application.

92. Warehousing bond.

Form of bond.

93. Forwarding of goods to warehouse.