Customs Order, 2006 · As enacted · Part VIII · Warehousing
69. Dangerous goods
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No goods of an inflammable nature or of such a nature as to be likely to cause detriment to other goods shall be deposited in any customs warehouse without the sanction of a senior officer of customs, and if any such goods are landed lawfully outside the limits of a port declared under the Ports Act
goods
"goods" includes animals, birds, fish, plants and all kinds of movable property;
(Chapter 144), they may be deposited, at the expense and risk of the importer thereof, in any place but at such limits as the senior officer of customs may think fit. Whilst so deposited, such goods shall be deemed to be in a customs warehouse and, unless within a period of 14 days they have been duly cleared or warehoused in some approved warehouse, shall, at the expiration of such period, be liable to be dealt with in the same manner as goods of a similar nature actually deposited in a customs warehouse. Such goods shall be chargeable with such expenses for securing, watching and guarding the same until sold, cleared or warehoused, as the senior officer of customs may think fit.
importer
"importer" means any person by or for whom goods are imported; and includes the consignee of goods and any person who is or becomes the owner of, or entitled to the possession of, or beneficially interested in any goods on or at any time after importation thereof and before such goods have ceased to be subject to customs control;
Terms defined in s 2
customs warehouse
Defined · s 2"customs warehouse" means a warehouse or other place established by the Minister, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, under section 59 for the deposit of dutiable goods;
goods
Defined · s 2"goods" includes animals, birds, fish, plants and all kinds of movable property;
importer
Defined · s 2"importer" means any person by or for whom goods are imported; and includes the consignee of goods and any person who is or becomes the owner of, or entitled to the possession of, or beneficially interested in any goods on or at any time after importation thereof and before such goods have ceased to be subject to customs control;
officer of customs
Defined · s 2"officer of customs" means- (a) the Controller; (b) any Deputy Controller, Assistant Controller, Senior Superintendent, Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent of Customs and Excise appointed under section 3; and (c) the persons authorised by section 5 to exercise the powers of senior officers of customs or of officers of customs and any person appointed by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan to act as an officer of customs;
warehouse
Defined · s 2"warehouse" means a place for the deposit of goods under customs control. (2) For the purposes of this Order, goods shall be deemed to be under customs control whilst they are deposited or held in any free trade zone, or in any Ports Department warehouse, customs warehouse or licensed warehouse, post office, or in any vessel, conveyance, aircraft or place from which they may not be removed except with the permission of the proper officer of customs. (3) References in this Order - {aj to a document or record include, in addition to a document or record on paper, references to any, or part of any - (i) document or record kept on any magnetic, optical, chemical or other medium; (ii) photograph; (iii) map, plan, graph, picture or drawing; (iv) film, including a microfilm and a microfiche, negative, disc, tape, soundtrack or any other device in which one or more visual images, sounds or other data are embodied so as to be capable, with or without the aid of some other equipment, of being reproduced therefrom; {bj to a document or record in writing, or the making of a document or record in writing, include, unless the context otherwise requires, any electronic notice or the making, serving or submitting of such a notice under this Order; and (c) to a person - (i) in respect of a body corporate or unincorporated body, include references to the director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of that body corporate or unincorporated body, or of a person purporting to act in any such capacity; (ii) in respect of partnership, include references to the partner, secretary or other similar officer of that partnership, or of a person purporting to act in any such capacity; (d) to this Order include references to regulations made under this Order.
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