Specially dangerous goods not to be delivered to warehouse- owner or carrier, etc., without being marked

(1) Any person who, (a) delivers to any warehouse-owner or carrier; or (b) sends or carries, or causes to be sent or carried upon any railway, or in any vessel, aircraft or other means of conveyance to or from any port in Belize; or (c) deposits in any building or warehouse or upon any quay or stores in any place, any goods which are specially dangerous shall distinctly write, print or mark on the outside of the package, (i) his name; (ii) the time at which he delivers, or sends or carries the package, or causes it to be sent or carried, or so deposits the package; (iii) the description of such goods; and (iv) the words “specially dangerous”. 11 (2) No person shall deliver to or deposit with any warehouse-owner or carrier any goods which are specially dangerous unless in addition to complying with subsection (1) of this section he also gives notice in writing to him of the name or description of such goods and of their being specially (3) Any person who commits a breach of this section is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years. Provided that, (a) a person convicted of a breach of this section shall not be liable to imprisonment or to a fine of more than one thousand dollars if he shows to the satisfaction of the court and jury before whom he is convicted that he did not know the nature of the goods to which the indictment relates; (b) a person accused of having committed a breach of this section shall not be liable to be convicted thereof if he shows to the satisfaction of the court and jury before whom he is tried that he did not know the nature of the goods to which the indictment relates, and that he could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.