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Exchange Control (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1978
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Amendment of sections 18 and 19 of Principal Act.

6.— Sections 18 and 19 of the Principal Act are hereby amended by the substitution of “by or under any of the provisions of this Act” for “by any of the provisions of this Act” in each place where it occurs and subsection (1) of the said section 18 and subsections (1) (a) and (2) of the said section 19, as so amended in each case, are set out in the Table to this section.

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18.—(1) The Customs Acts shall, subject to such modifications, if any, as may be prescribed to adapt them to this Act, apply, in relation to any thing prohibited to be imported or exported by or under any of the provisions of this Act except with the permission of the Minister, as they apply in relation to goods prohibited to be imported or exported by or under any of the said Acts, and any reference in the said Acts to goods shall be construed as including a reference to any thing prohibited to be imported or exported by or under any of the provisions of this Act except with the permission of the Minister.

19.—(1) (a) declare whether or not he has with him any thing prohibited to be imported or exported by or under any of the provisions of this Act except with the permission of the Minister, and

(2) The officer may examine or search any article which the traveller has with him for the purpose of ascertaining whether he is conveying or has in his possession any such thing and, if the officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the traveller has about his person any such thing, he may search the traveller, and the officer may seize any thing produced as aforesaid or found upon such examination or search as aforesaid as to which the officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that it is prohibited to be imported or exported by or under any of the provisions of this Act except with the permission of the Minister, unless the traveller produces evidence showing that he is exporting or importing the thing in accordance with this Act.