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PART 3 IMPORT AND EXPORT
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PART 3
IMPORT AND EXPORT

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      (1)     The enactments relating to customs shall, subject to such modifications, if any, as may be prescribed to adapt them to this Act apply in relation to anything prohibited to be imported or exported by any of the provisions of Part 4 except with the permission of the Director of Finance and Planning as they apply in relation to goods prohibited to be imported or exported by or under any of the said enactments and any reference in the said enactments to goods shall be construed as including a reference to anything prohibited to be imported or exported by any of the provisions of the said Part 4 except with the permission of the Director of Finance and Planning.

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      (2)     References in this paragraph to the enactments relating to customs shall be taken as including references to the Customs (Control and Management) Act.

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    2.   Any declaration required to be given under Part 4 shall, for the purposes of the Customs (Control and Management) Act be deemed to be a declaration in a matter relating to customs.

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    3.   If anything prohibited to be exported by any provision of the said Part 4 is exported in contravention thereof, or is brought to a quay or other place, or waterborne, for the purpose of being so exported, the exporter or his or her agent is liable to the same penalty as that to which a person is liable for an offence to which the Customs (Control and Management) Act applies, and where the offence is concerned with any currency, any security, any gold, any goods or any other property, the Court may, if it think fit so to do, order the currency, security, gold, goods or property to be forfeited.

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    4.   Without prejudice to any of the preceding provisions of this Part of this Schedule, any person who, on any occasion, is about to leave Saint Lucia or arrives in Saint Lucia (which person is hereafter in this paragraph referred to as “the traveller”) shall, if on that occasion he or she is required so to do by an officer of Customs or an immigration officer—

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      (a)     declare whether or not he or she has with him or her anything prohibited to be imported or exported by any of the provisions of the said Part 4 except with the permission of the Director of Finance and Planning; and

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      (b)     produce any such thing as aforesaid which he or she has with him or her,

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    and the officer may examine or search any article which the traveller has with him or her for the purpose of ascertaining whether he or she is conveying or has in his or her possession any such thing, and, if the officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the traveller has about his or her person any such thing, search him or her, and may seize anything produced as aforesaid or found upon such examination or search as aforesaid as to which the officer has reasonable ground for suspecting that it is prohibited to be imported or exported by any of the provisions of the said Part 4 except with the permission of the Director of Finance and Planning.

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    However, a female shall not be searched in pursuance of this paragraph except by a female.

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    5.   Paragraph 1(2) of Part 2 of this Schedule applies also to offences punishable by virtue of this Part of this Schedule.

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