Entry by importers

(1) If the importer of any goods fails within ten days after the arrival of the importing ship, or within such further time as the Comptroller may allow, to make perfect entry, or entry by bill of sight of the goods, and land the same, it shall be lawful for any officer of customs where the goods are not already in the custody of the Port Authority to convey such goods to a Queen’s warehouse, and whenever the cargo of any ship has been discharged within the ten days, with the exception only of a small quantity of goods, the officers of customs may convey such remaining goods to a Queen’s warehouse, and likewise at any time may convey any small packages of goods to a Queen’s warehouse, although the ten days have not expired, there to be kept waiting the due entry thereof during the remainder of the ten days, except as hereinafter mentioned. (2) If any goods so deposited, being of a perishable nature, are not claimed forthwith, or not being of a perishable nature are not claimed within six weeks of the arrival of the ship, and all charges of removal and warehouse rent are not paid, the goods may be sold, and the proceeds thereof applied first to the payment of duties, freight and charges, and the surplus, if any, shall be paid to the proprietor of the goods or his duly authorised agent, and in case such goods cannot be sold for a sufficient sum to pay the duties and charges, they may, by direction of the Comptroller, be destroyed. (3) If the importing ship and goods are liable to the performance of quarantine, the time for entry and landing of such goods shall be computed from the time at which such ship and goods are released from quarantine.