Cap. 159 ст. 17Power to require information from importers.

(1) The Comptroller may require the importer of any goods to state such facts concerning the goods and their history as he may think necessary to determine whether the goods are goods originating in a country specified in an order under this Part of this Ordinance or are goods exported from any country, and to furnish him in such form as he may require with proof of any statements so made; and if such proof is not furnished to his satisfaction or the required facts are not stated, the goods shall be deemed for the purpose of this Part of this Ordinance to have originated in, or, as the case may be, to have been exported from, such country as he may determine:

Provided that the Comptroller shall require proof of the country in which goods originated in relation to any duty under this Part of this Ordinance in the case only of goods exported from such countries as the Minister responsible for industry, after consulting the Corporation, may direct in relation to that duty.

(2) Where an order under this Part of this Ordinance limits the description of goods in respect of which duty is chargeable under this Part of this Ordinance or the cases in which duty is so chargeable so that the question whether any and if so what duty is chargeable on the goods depends on other matters besides the country in which the goods originated or from which they were exported, the Comptroller may also require the importer to state such facts as he may deem necessary to determine that question so far as regards those other matters and to furnish him in such form as he may require with proofs of any statements so made; and if such proof is not furnished to his satisfaction or the required facts are not stated, those facts shall be deemed for the purposes of duty under this Part of this Ordinance to be such as he may determine.