Hong Kong Regulations

IMPORT AND EXPORT (GENERAL) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 6DAH

Transitional

(Past version on 08/01/2004).

Due to technical constraints, sections 6DAA, 6DAB, 6DAC, 6DAD, 6DAE, 6DAF,
6DAG and 6DAH of this Ordinance are placed after section 6DA in the BLIS
system. The correct sequence of the sections should be "6DAA, 6DAB, 6DAC,
6DAD, 6DAE, 6DAF, 6DAG, 6DAH, 6DA".

(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. (Part VB
added 33 of 2003 s. 2)
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Note:

* Commencement date: 8 January 2004.

** L.N. 31 of 2006 was made by the Director for the purposes of regulation
6DAH(3) and its text is reproduced as follows- "For the purposes of regulation
6DAH(3) of the Import and Export (General) Regulations ( Cap 60 sub. leg. A),
I specify 15 June 2006 as the date on which the period specified for the
purposes of regulation 6DAH(1) and (2)

(in so far as it relates to any provision of regulation 6DAC or 6DAE of the
Regulations requiring the delivery of a copy or extract of the manifest of a
vessel) of the Regulations shall end.".