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Customs Regulation
Cap. 49 · Revised Edition 2020 · 144 sections
- s. 1Short title
- s. 2Interpretation
- s. 3Appointment of officers
- s. 4Employees are officers
- s. 5Punishment for taking gratuity
- s. 6Declaration by officers
- s. 7Office hours
- s. 8Hearing of complaints, etc
- s. 9Perjury
- s. 10Agents to show authority
- s. 11Stationing officers on board
- s. 12Duty to provide information
- s. 12AWaiver
- s. 12BTechnical stop
- s. 12CACI verification
- s. 12DUse and sharing of ACI
- s. 12ERetention of data
- s. 13Requirement to answer questions
- s. 14Powers of officers on board
- s. 15Report on arrival
- s. 16Bill of entry
- s. 17Particulars of entry and valuation of goods
- s. 18Production of title to and disposal of goods
- s. 19Sale of goods on refusal of duty
- s. 20Undervalued goods
- s. 21Entry of goods for warehousing
- s. 22Account of bullion, currency, etc
- s. 23Declaration where entry imperfect
- s. 24Goods entered by bill of sight
- s. 25Management of sum deposited as estimated duties
- s. 26Disposal of goods of un-perfect entry
- s. 27Entry by importers
- s. 28Entry to take goods from warehouse
- s. 29Duty on damaged goods
- s. 30Officers to examine damage
- s. 31Landing of goods
- s. 32Unauthorised removal of goods
- s. 33Importer’s risk to unship goods
- s. 34Breaking seals, locks, etc
- s. 35Seizure of obscene prints, etc
- s. 36Spirits, cordials, etc
- s. 37Entry outwards
- s. 38Clearance on accounting for inward cargo
- s. 39Bond to export goods
- s. 40Exporting vessel must be at least ten tons
- s. 41Exportation of warehoused goods in certain cases
- s. 42Exporting warehoused goods
- s. 43How exports made
- s. 44Regulating the carriage of bonded goods
- s. 45Penalties on non-exportation
- s. 46Ship’s clearance
- s. 47Where no bond goods to be accounted for
- s. 48Coasting trade
- s. 49Coasting ship
- s. 50Reporting dutiable goods
- s. 51Rules to regulate importation and exportation by inland carriage
- s. 51AImportation and exportation of goods by post
- s. 52Establishment and duties of Customs Tariff Board
- s. 53Bonds
- s. 54Bonds of infants valid
- s. 55Duty ascertained by samples
- s. 56Ports and landing places
- s. 57Forfeiture of goods
- s. 58Duties on ship’s stores
- s. 59False declarations
- s. 60Goods for home consumption
- s. 61Inflammable goods
- s. 62Warehousing of gunpowder
- s. 63Abandoned goods
- s. 64Warehousing
- s. 65Private warehouses and customs areas and their regulations
- s. 66Removal of warehoused goods
- s. 67Accounts of warehoused goods
- s. 68Power to sell goods after six months in warehouse
- s. 69Lost and destroyed goods
- s. 70Duties on spirits and tobacco
- s. 71Removal of goods
- s. 72Misconduct of officers
- s. 73Fraudulent opening of warehouse
- s. 74Clearing goods
- s. 75Re-sorting and packing goods
- s. 76Fire or inevitable accident
- s. 77Warehoused goods
- s. 77ACustoms control of persons entering or leaving Belize
- s. 78False bulkheads
- s. 79Boats alongside
- s. 80Unshipping goods without duty paid
- s. 81Concealed goods
- s. 82Lower duty goods
- s. 83Goods illegally removed
- s. 84Persons authorised to make seizures
- s. 85Power to search the person
- s. 86Penalties
- s. 87Searching houses
- s. 88Writs of assistance
- s. 89Seizures taken to Custom House
- s. 90Detaining on escapes
- s. 91Stopping carts, etc., search
- s. 92Bringing to ship, etc
- s. 93Firing into vessel
- s. 94Ship found light
- s. 95Ships removing goods
- s. 96Penalty for assembling to smuggle, etc
- s. 97Running goods with arms
- s. 98Obstructing and assaulting officers
- s. 99Disposal of seizures
- s. 100Goods in transit exempt from duty and tax
- s. 101Charges for administration expenses
- s. 102Entry before clearance by transit agent
- s. 103Mode of prohibiting exportation and importation
- s. 104Goods not deemed unlawfully imported
- s. 105Conditions for importation and exportation
- s. 106Penalty
- s. 107Bringing to
- s. 107A—
- s. 108Penalty for non-compliance with law as to entry
- s. 109Unauthorised entries
- s. 110Penalty on breaking seal, lock, etc
- s. 111Penalty for false papers
- s. 112Fraudulent evasion offences and penalties
- s. 112AOffences relating to vehicles and vessels
- s. 113Out of court settlement
- s. 114Valuation of goods for assessing penalties
- s. 115Penalty
- s. 116Additional assessments of duties
- s. 117Use of agent
- s. 118Punishment for offenders and recovery of fines, etc
- s. 119Writs of certiorari and habeas corpus
- s. 120Condemnation of ships, etc
- s. 121Onus probandi
- s. 122Delivery of forfeited ships
- s. 123Adjudication of forfeitures
- s. 124Immunity of officers
- s. 125Dispute as to payment of duties
- s. 126Averments in proceedings
- s. 127Evidence
- s. 128Limitation of proceedings
- s. 129Escaped persons
- s. 130Collusion by and bribery of officers
- s. 131Penalties and informers
- s. 132General penalty
- s. 133Restoration of goods, remission of fines, etc
- s. 134Regulations
- s. 135Appeals and stay of execution of inferior courts’ decisions