Averments in proceedings

In any proceedings taken or instituted under any customs law, any of the following averments shall be sufficient without proof of any such fact, unless the defendant in such cases proves to the contrary– (a) that the Comptroller has directed or elected such proceedings to be instituted; (b) that any ship or boat is foreign or belongs wholly or in part to Belizean citizens; 73 (c) that any person detained or found on board any ship or boat liable to seizure is or is not a Belizean citizen; (d) that any person is an officer of customs or is the proper officer; or (e) when the offence is committed in any part of Belize, that the part of Belize named therein is the place where the offence was committed.