### Import and Export (General) Regulations 《進出口(一般)規例》

6DAC. Delivery of transhipment notification and manifest to the Director
(1) A person who receives a transhipment notification endorsed under regulation 6DAA(2) shall, within 7 days after the day on which the specified article to which the notification relates is imported, present the endorsed notification to an import carrier.
(2) The import carrier, on receiving the endorsed notification pursuant to paragraph (1)—
(a) may release the specified article to the consignee; and
(b) shall, within 7 days after receiving the endorsed notification—
(i) deliver it to the Director; and
(ii) deliver to the Director, using services provided by a specified body, a copy or extract of the manifest of the importing vessel, aircraft or vehicle, which copy or extract shall contain, in addition to the particulars required to be contained in a manifest under paragraph 2 of the Import and Export Manifests Notice (Cap. 60 sub. leg. C), the reference number.
(3) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2)(b) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2.

6DAD. Export carrier not to accept transhipment cargo without transhipment notification
(1) This regulation applies where a specified article is exported as transhipment cargo in or on any vessel, aircraft or vehicle in reliance on an exemption under regulation 6(1)(ba).
(2) An export carrier shall not accept a specified article for export on an exporting vessel, aircraft or vehicle until he has received a transhipment notification endorsed under regulation 6DAA(2) in respect of the specified article.
(3) Any person who contravenes paragraph (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year.

6DAE. Delivery of transhipment notification and manifest to the Director
(1) A person who receives a transhipment notification endorsed under regulation 6DAA(2) shall, before the specified article to which the notification relates is exported, present the endorsed notification to an export carrier.
(2) The export carrier, on receiving the endorsed notification pursuant to paragraph (1), shall within 14 days after the day on which the article is exported—
(a) deliver the endorsed notification to the Director; and
(b) deliver to the Director, using services provided by a specified body, a copy or extract of the manifest of the exporting vessel, aircraft or vehicle, which copy or extract shall contain, in addition to the particulars required to be contained in a manifest under paragraph 3 of the Import and Export Manifests Notice (Cap. 60 sub. leg. C), the reference number.
(3) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 2.

### Import and Export (General) Regulations 《進出口(一般)規例》

6DAF. Endorsement on transhipment notification ceases to have effect
(1) If a transhipment notification has been endorsed under regulation 6DAA(2) and any information in the endorsed notification relating to the consignment of the transhipment cargo is rendered inaccurate in a material particular by any change of circumstances, the endorsement on the notification shall cease to have any effect.
(2) Where the endorsement of a transhipment notification ceases to have effect at any time before the specified article to which the notification relates is imported or exported, section 6C or 6D of the Ordinance shall respectively apply.

6DAG. Certain requirements deemed complied with if manifest lodged with Commissioner using services provided by a specified body
The requirements under regulation 6DAC(2)(b)(ii) or 6DAE(2)(b) are deemed to have been complied with if—
(a) regulation 11 or 12 (as the case may be) of the Import and Export (Registration) Regulations (Cap. 60 sub. leg. E) has been complied with in relation to the importing vessel, aircraft or vehicle or exporting vessel, aircraft or vehicle (as the case may be) by the manifest having been lodged with the Commissioner, or with an officer appointed by the Commissioner, using services provided by a specified body; and
(b) the manifest contains the reference number.

### Import and Export (General) Regulations 《進出口(一般)規例》

6DAH. Transitional
(1) For the purposes of this Part, any provision of regulations 6DAC and 6DAE requiring that a copy or extract of a manifest delivered under those regulations be delivered by using services provided by a specified body shall, in respect of the period specified in paragraph (3), but subject to any determination made under section 32A(2)(a) of the Ordinance or notice published under section 32B(2) of the Ordinance, be construed as requiring that the copy or extract be delivered either in paper form or by using services provided by a specified body.
(2) Where a copy or extract of a manifest is delivered in paper form during the period specified in paragraph (3), the import carrier or export carrier (as the case may be) shall, in addition to complying with other requirements under regulation 6DAC or 6DAE, deliver to the Director such copy or extract duly certified by the import carrier or export carrier (as the case may be) as a true copy or extract of the manifest, failing which the requirements under regulation 6DAC(2)(b)(ii) or 6DAE(2)(b) shall not be regarded as having been complied with.
(3) The period specified for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) is the period beginning with the commencement* of section 4 of Schedule 1 to the Import and Export (Facilitation) Ordinance 2003 (33 of 2003) and ending at midnight on a date to be specified by the Director for the purposes of this paragraph by notice published in the Gazette**. (L.N. 206 of 2005)
(4) A notice published under paragraph (3) may specify different dates in relation to different classes of persons or information.
(5) A notice published under paragraph (3) is subsidiary legislation.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 8 January 2004.
**See the Import and Export (General) Regulations (Specification of Ending Date under Regulation 6DAH) Notice 2006 (L.N. 31 of 2006).

### Import and Export (General) Regulations 《進出口(一般)規例》

6DA. Interpretation of Part 6
In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—
diamond (鑽石) means a natural mineral consisting essentially of pure crystallized carbon in the isometric system, with a hardness on the Mohs (scratch) scale of 10, a specific gravity of approximately 3.52 and a refractive index of 2.42;
Kimberley Process (金伯利進程) means the international forum in which the participants have developed an international certification scheme for rough diamonds;
registered rough diamond trader (登記未經加工鑽石商) means a person registered under regulation 6DD;
rough diamonds (未經加工鑽石) means diamonds that are unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted and fall under the Hong Kong Harmonisation System Codes 7102 1000, 7102 2100 and 7102 3100 under the heading 7102 in the Hong Kong Imports and Exports Classification List (Harmonised System) issued by the Commissioner (as amended from time to time);
Scheme (計劃) means the international certification scheme for rough diamonds presented in the form of a document entitled the “Kimberley Process Certification Scheme” and adopted at a meeting of the Kimberley Process on 5 November 2002 in Interlaken, Switzerland;
specified country or place (指明國家或地方) means a country or place for the time being specified in Schedule 7 as being—
(a) a country or place for which the Scheme is effective; or
(b) any other country or place from which the import of rough diamonds into, and to which the export of rough diamonds from, a country or place for which the Scheme is effective is permitted by the Kimberley Process.

(E.R. 1 of 2012)