(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of this or any other Act by or under which an operation on warehoused goods is or may be permitted, the Comptroller may, in the case of such goods and subject to such conditions and restrictions as he or she may think fit, permit the sorting, separating, packing or repacking of goods in warehouse and the carrying out on warehoused goods of such other operations necessary for the preservation, sale, shipment or disposal of the goods as he or she sees fit, and may give directions as to the warehouses or the part of any warehouse in which any such operation on goods may be carried out.