Finance Act, 1950
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Regulations in relation to aerodromes, aircraft, etc. |
9.—(1) The Minister for Finance may by regulations make such provision as appears to him to be requisite or expedient for all or any of the following purposes:— | |
(a) applying any of the provisions of the Customs Acts, subject to such modifications as he considers appropriate, in relation to aerodromes and to aircraft and persons, goods, mails, stores and baggage carried therein, disembarked or unladen therefrom or embarked or laden thereon; | ||
(b) adapting or modifying any of the provisions of the statutes which relate to the duties of excise and the management of those duties in relation to aerodromes and to aircraft and persons, goods, mails, stores and baggage carried therein, disembarked or unladen therefrom or embarked or laden thereon; | ||
(c) preventing smuggling by air; | ||
(d) carrying out, in so far as they relate to the Customs, the provisions of the Chicago Convention. | ||
In this subsection, the expression “the Chicago Convention” has the same meaning as it has in Part II of the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1946 (No. 23 of 1946), as amended by section 9 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1950 (No. 4 of 1950). | ||
(2) If any person contravenes, whether by act or omission, any regulation under this section, he shall, in addition to any other penalty to which he may be liable, be guilty of an offence against the Customs Acts and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a Customs penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, and he may either be detained or proceeded against by summons. | ||
(3) Any goods in respect of which an offence under this section may have been committed, together with all aircraft, ships, boats, vehicles, animals and other things used in their conveyance, shall be forfeited. | ||
(4) On the making of the first regulations under this section for the purposes specified in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section, regulations 61 and 63 of the Air Navigation (General) Regulations, 1930 ( S.R. & O., No. 26 of 1930 ), shall cease to have effect. |