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EXPORT CONTROL REGULATIONS CHAPTER 299

EXPORT CONTROL REGULATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title. 2. Interpretation. 3. Minister may make Export Regulations. 4. Appointment of competent authority. 5. Agents of competent authority. 6. Advisers to competent authority. 7. Offences by company, etc. 8. Offences and penalties.

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CHAPTER 299

EXPORT CONTROL REGULATIONS An Act to provide for the control of exports from The

Bahamas. [Commencement 20th June, 1955]

1. This Act may be cited as the Export Control Regulations Act.

2. In this Act and in the regulations made under this Act —

“goods” means anything capable of being exported from The Bahamas or transhipped within The Bahamas consigned to a place outside The Bahamas;

“Minister” means the Minister of Finance. 3. From and after the coming into operation of this

Act the Minister may by Order make such regulations (hereinafter described as the Export Regulations) as he may deem expedient for the purpose of controlling or prohibiting —

(a) the export from The Bahamas to any place outside The Bahamas of goods or any class of goods;

(b) the trans-shipment within The Bahamas of goods or any class of goods consigned to a place outside The Bahamas.

4. From and after the coming into operation of this Act the Minister may by notice in the Gazette appoint a person or body of persons to be the competent authority to enforce the Export Regulations.

5. (1) The competent authority may appoint such agents as may be necessary for the efficient carrying out of the duties of the competent authority under the Export Regulations.

2 of 1955 43 of 1964 E.L.A.O., 1974 5 of 1987

Short title.

Interpretation.

E.L.A.O., 1974.

Minister may make Export Regulations. E.L.A.O., 1974.

Appointment of competent authority. E.L.A.O., 1974.

Agents of competent authority.

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(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred upon the competent authority by the Export Regulations, the competent authority may delegate to his agent any powers conferred upon the competent authority by the Export Regulations in respect of the grant of or refusal to grant any licence, certificate, permit or other authorisation required by the Export Regulations.

6. The Minister may, if he sees fit, by notice in the Gazette appoint any person or body of persons to advise the competent authority in the exercise of the powers conferred upon such competent authority by the Export Regulations.

7. Where any offence under the Export Regulations is committed by a company, firm, or other association of individuals, every Director and officer of the company, every partner and officer of the firm or every member and every person concerned in the management of the affairs of the association, as the case may be, shall severally be liable to be prosecuted and punished for the offence, unless the act or omission constituting the offence took place without his knowledge, consent or connivance.

8. Any person who fails to comply with or contra- venes any of the provisions of the Export Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to such penalties (including the forfeiture of any goods the subject-matter of the offence) as the Minister may by the Export Regulations prescribe:

Provided that no such penalty if consisting of imprisonment or a fine, or of both such imprisonment and fine, shall exceed —

(a) on a summary conviction, imprisonment for six months or a fine of four hundred dollars, or both such imprisonment and fine; or

(b) on conviction by the Supreme Court, imprison- ment for two years or a fine of two thousand dollars, or both such imprisonment and fine.

Advisers to competent authority. E.L.A.O., 1974.

Offences by company, etc.

Offences and penalties. E.L.A.O., 1974.

5 of 1987, s. 2.