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Excise (Transfer of Duties).

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 4071 CHAPTER 313.

EXCISE (TRANSFER OF DUTIES).

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

Interpretation.

1.

Short title.

2.

3.

Powers and duties of district commissioners under the Ordinances and regulations in the schedules to be exercised and performed by the Comptroller of Customs and Excise.

SCHEDULE.

CHAPTER 313.

EXCISE (TRANSFER OF DUTIES).


An Ordinance to transfer to the Comptroller of Customs and Excise certain powers and duties of District Commissioners.

66 of 1952.

[1ST JANUARY, 1953.]

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Excise (Transfer of Duties) Ordinance.

2.
In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires— " the Comptroller " means the Comptroller of Customs and Excise and includes any officer of the Department of Customs and Excise, any warden or sub-warden of a mining district and any district commissioner authorised in writing by the Comptroller of Customs and Excise to perform any of the functions and duties conferred on the Comptroller of Customs and Excise by this Ordinance; " district commissioner " means the commissioner of the district appointed under the District Government Ordinance, any assistant district commissioner of a district and any public officer appointed to the staff of any administrative or mining district office.
Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Cap.

56.

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313.]

 Excise (Transfer of Duties).

Powers and duties of district Commis.

sioners under the Ordinances and regulations in the schedules to be exercised and performed by the Comptroller of Customs and Excise.

Cap.

319.

3.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 9 of the District Government Ordinance, on the commencement of this Ordinance— (a) the Comptroller shall have and exercise all the powers and functions and perform the duties of district commissioners under the Ordinances and regulations set out in the schedule hereto; (b) where in any of the Ordinances and regulations set out in the schedule hereto or in the regulations made by the Governor and Court of Policy on the 3rd October, 1905, under the provisions of the Spirits Ordinance, and published in the Gazette of the 4th October, 1905, or in any contract, agreement or document relating to or made in pursuance of any of them the Comptroller of Customs, the comptroller, the commissary or a district commissioner is mentioned or referred to the Comptroller shall be intended and taken in place thereof.
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