Hong Kong Regulations

IMPORT AND EXPORT (REGISTRATION) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 11

Import manifests and other particulars

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART III

MANIFESTS AND OTHER INFORMATION

(1) The manifest of the cargo imported in every vessel, aircraft or vehicle
which arrives within Hong Kong shall- (L.N. 256 of 1984)

   (a)  give such particulars of each article therein as may be prescribed by
        notice under section 17 of the Ordinance;

   (b)  be completed in such manner and in such number of copies as the
        Commissioner may require;

   (c)  be lodged with the Commissioner or such other officer as he may
        appoint by the owner or master of the vessel, or the owner or
        commander of the aircraft, or the owner or person in charge of the
        vehicle (other than a train), or the person acting as the agent for
        the owner of goods carried by train, as the case may be; and (L.N. 235
        of 1973)

   (d)  be lodged using services provided by a specified body. (L.N. 33 of
        2003)

(2) Every manifest required to be lodged under paragraph (1) shall be lodged
within 14 days after the arrival of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle within
Hong Kong on the occasion concerned. (L.N. 256 of 1984)

(3)-(4) (Repealed L.N. 235 of 1973)

(5) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, lodges a manifest that, in
contravention of paragraph (1), does not give all the particulars required by
that paragraph in respect of any article specified in the manifest, or
contravenes a requirement of the Commissioner under paragraph

(1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to
a fine of $10000. (5 of 1971 s. 13)

(6) Any person who, being required to lodge a manifest under paragraph (1),
fails or neglects, without reasonable excuse (the burden of proof whereof
shall be upon him), to do so in the manner specified in paragraph (1)(d)
within the period specified in paragraph (2), or, where he has such excuse,
fails or neglects to lodge such manifest in such manner as soon as is
practicable after the cessation of such excuse, shall be guilty of an offence
and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1000, and, commencing
on the day following the date of conviction, to a fine of $100 in respect of
every day during which his failure or neglect to lodge the manifest in that
manner continues. (L.N. 235 of 1973; L.N. 294 of 1982; L.N. 260 of 1983; L.N.
33 of 2003)