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Procedure on removal of spirits from spirit store to a Queen’s warehouse

Cap. 53, s. 61 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Spirits shall not be removed from a spirit store to a Queen’s warehouse except in accordance with the regulations. Queen’s Ware- house. (2) Before any spirits are removed from a spirit store under a permit allowing them to be removed to a Queen’s warehouse, the distiller, his attorney or agent shall enter into a bond in the prescribed form with sureties approved by the Proper Authority in a sum equal to twice the duty on the spirits to secure the removal of the spirits to the Queen’s warehouse. (3) The condition of the bond specified in subsection (2) of this section, shall be that, (a) if within a time named in the bond the spirits are taken to and stored in the Queen’s warehouse or otherwise accounted for to the satisfaction of the Comptroller; or (b) in the event of the spirits or any part of the spirits not being taken to and stored in a Queen’s warehouse, if the duty on the spirits or on so much of the spirits as is not taken to and stored in a Queen’s warehouse or otherwise accounted for to the satisfaction of the Comptroller is paid to the Comptroller, the bond shall be void, but otherwise shall remain in full force. (4) A distiller, his attorney or agent instead of entering into a bond as specified in subsection (2) of this section on each occasion when spirits are intended to be removed from the distiller’s spirit store to be taken to a Queen’s warehouse, may enter into a general bond in the prescribed form with such sureties and in such amount as the Comptroller may approve. (5) The condition of the general bond specified in subsection (4) of this section shall be that, 36 (a) if all spirits from time to time removed from the spirit store under permits allowing them to be removed to a Queen’s warehouse are within a reasonable time from the date of their being so removed taken to and stored in the respective Queen’s warehouses named in the said permits, or otherwise accounted for to the satisfaction of the Comptroller; or (b) in the event of any such spirits not being so taken and stored or otherwise accounted for to the satisfaction of the Comptroller then, if the duty on all such spirits not so taken and stored or otherwise accounted for is in each case within a reasonable time from the date of the permit under which such spirits were allowed to be so removed, paid to the Comptroller, the bond shall be void, but otherwise shall remain in full force.
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Procedure on removal of spirits from spirit store to a Queen’s warehouse — Cap. 53 s. 61 · Belize Law