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Customs (Amendment) Act 1998

PAPUA NEW GUINEA


Customs (Amendment) Act 1998


No. 5 of 1998.
Certified on: 28.4.98


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

1. Interpretation (Amendment of Section 1).
2. Repeal and Replacement of Section 146.

"146. FORFEITED GOODS."

3. Consequential Amendment.


AN ACT

entitled

Customs (Amendment) Act 1998,

Being an Act to amend the Customs Act (Chapter 101).

MADE by the National Parliament to be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1998.

  1. INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1).

Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) by repealing the definition of "aerodrome" and replacing it with the following:-
(b) by repealing the definition of "aerodrome owner" and replacing it with the following:-
(c) by inserting after the definition of "by authority" the following new definitions:-
(d) by repealing the definition of "goods" and replacing it with the following:-
(e) by repealing the definition of "smuggling" and replacing it with the following:-
  1. REPEAL AND REPLACEMENT OF SECTION 146.

Section 146 of the Principal Act is repealed and replaced with the following:-

"146. FORFEITED GOODS.
(1) The following goods shall be forfeited to the State:-

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 145, this section applies in relation to ships, boats and aircraft as well as other goods.".

  1. CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENT.

The Principal Act is amended by repealing the word "aerodrome" (wherever occuring) and replacing it with the following:-

"airport".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Customs (Amendment) Act 1998 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Acting Clerk of the National Parliament.

I hereby certify that the Customs (Amendment) Act 1998 was made by the National Parliament on 17 March 1998.

Speaker of the National Parliament.


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