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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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to form part of this Order accordingly. The Opium Act, 1908, shall, in its application to Samoa, be read as if the words “two hundred pounds” were substituted for the words “fifty pounds” where the last-mentioned words occur in subsection four of section three and in subsection two of section five of the said Act. A constable may arrest without warrant any person whom he suspects of having committed an offence against the Opium Act, 1908, or the Distillation Act, 1908.

9. The term “duty” as used in the Customs Act, 1913, shall in the application of that Act to Samoa include export duties imposed by this or any other Order in Council so far as the provisions of that Act are applicable thereto, and the terms “revenue of Customs,” “dutiable goods,” and “uncustomed goods” shall be construed accordingly, save that section one hundred and thirty of the said Act (relative to alterations of duties) shall have no application to export duties.

10. (1.) All duties imposed on the exportation of goods shall constitute a debt payable to the Crown by the exporter of those goods, and, if there are several exporters, then jointly and severally by all of them.

(2.) Such duty shall become due and payable so soon as entry of the goods for export has been made, or the goods have been wrongfully shipped or otherwise wrongfully dealt with without having been entered for export, or any other offence against the Customs Act, 1913, has been committed with respect thereto.

(3.) The term “exporter” means and includes, in respect of any goods exported or intended for export, any person by whom those goods are exported, or by whom they are shipped on board the exporting ship, or who is or becomes the owner of them or entitled to the possession of them or to any interest in them at any time while they are subject to the control of the Customs.

11. All powers conferred by the Customs Act, 1913, on the Minister of Customs shall in Samoa be exercised by the Administrator, and all powers conferred by the said Act on the Comptroller of Customs shall in Samoa be exercised by a Collector of Customs of Western Samoa. All references in the said Act to the Minister or Comptroller shall for the purposes of this Order be read accordingly as references to the Administrator or Collector as the case may require, and all references to the Gazette shall be read as references to the Western Samoa Gazette.

12. The seal of the Customs in Samoa shall be the Royal Arms having the words “Western Samoa—H.M. Customs” encircling the Arms.

13. (1.) The Port of Apia in Samoa is hereby declared to be a port of entry for the purposes of the Customs Act, 1913, in its application to Samoa.

(2.) The limits of the said Port of Apia shall be a circle of two miles from the Customhouse now existing at Apia, and the said port shall include all land, river, and sea included within that circle.

14. The prescribed period for the removal of goods from a King’s warehouse in Samoa within the meaning of section one hundred and six of the Customs Act, 1913, shall be twelve months.

15. The Administrator may, by notice in the Western Samoa Gazette, impose such charges as he thinks fit for the receipt, discharge, or storage of goods received into a King’s warehouse, or upon any wharf or examining-place belonging to the Crown.

16. (1.) There shall be levied, collected, and paid to the use of His Majesty on goods imported into Samoa the several duties of Customs set out in the First Schedule hereto.

(2.) Section one hundred and forty-three of the Customs Act, 1913, shall apply to any alteration made by this Order in the Customs duties in force in Samoa on the commencement of this Order.

17. (1.) There shall be levied, collected, and paid to the use of His Majesty on goods exported from Samoa the several export duties set out in the Second Schedule hereto.