Export entries

Export entries (Ex Warehouse) for goods to be exported in bond by inland carriage or navigation shall be prepared in quadruplicate and passed at the Custom House in the usual manner on payment of the prescribed duty and warehouse rent due; two copies will be retained by the officer passing the entry; one shall be filed at the Custom House and the second copy shall be forwarded immediately, through the post, to the Sub- Collector of Customs at San Ignacio. The exporter shall deliver the third copy to the Keeper of the Queen’s Warehouses when he takes delivery of the goods to be retained by him as his warrant for such delivery and shall forward the fourth copy by the master of the vessel in which the goods are carried to be delivered to the Customs Officer at San Ignacio immediately on 8 Customs Regulation the arrival of the vessel at San Ignacio or on the opening of the Court House for business should such vessel arrive out of office hoursProvided always that the master of the vessel in which the goods are carried and not the exporter shall be the person liable for any penalty imposed under these Rules for non-delivery of the customs entry to the Customs Officer at San Ignacio on arrivalAnd provided further that this rule shall be subject to variation as to time or otherwise should the state of the river at any time warrant a departure therefrom. In any such case of variation the Sub-Collector at San Ignacio shall be the judge as to the reasonableness of the facts or explanation advanced for departure from the fixed ruleProvided further that in the case of goods to be exported in bond by inland carriage or navigation via the Queen’s Warehouse to be established at Duck Run on the Belize River or via a Queen’s Warehouse at any other station which may hereafter be established for the exportation of such goods the procedure shall be varied in the following manner, that is to say: The second copy of the entry will not be forwarded by mail and two copies instead of the fourth copy shall be forwarded by the master of the vessel in which the goods are carried. One of the latter shall be retained by the Customs Officer in charge of the Queen’s Warehouse and the other endorsed with an acknowledgement of the receipt of the goods and returned by such Customs Officer to the Comptroller of Customs at Belize.