|
|
Application of Customs Acts to foreign parcels.
|
14. (1.) Subject to any exceptions and modifications made by regulations under this section, the provisions of the Acts for the time being in force relating to the Customs (in this Act referred to as Customs enactments) shall apply to goods contained in foreign, parcels, in like manner, so far as is consistent with the tenour thereof, as they apply to any other goods; and persons may be punished for offences against the said enactments, and goods may be examined, seized, and forfeited, and the officers examining and seizing them shall be protected, and legal proceedings in relation to the matters aforesaid may be taken, accordingly under the said enactments.
|
|
| |
(2.) The Treasury, on the recommendation of the Commissioners of Customs and the Postmaster-General, may from time to time make, and, when made, revoke and vary, regulations for the purpose of modifying or excepting the application of any of the Customs enactments to foreign parcels, and for the purpose of securing, in the case of such parcels, the observance of the Customs enactments, and for enabling the officers of the Post Office to perform, for the purpose of those enactments and otherwise, all or any of the duties of the importer and exporter, and for carrying into effect any treaty, convention, or arrangement with any foreign State or the government of any British possession with reference to foreign parcels, and for punishing any contravention of the Customs enactments or of the regulations under this section.
|
|
| |
(3.) The Postmaster-General shall have the same right of recovering any sums paid, in pursuance of the Customs enactments or otherwise under the said regulations, in respect of any foreign parcel, as he would have if the sum so paid were a rate of postage.
|
