Part VIII Warehouses and Queen’s Warehouses and Related Provisions about Pipe-lines
98 Procedure on warehouse ceasing to be approved.
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Where the Commissioners intend to revoke or not to renew their approval of a warehouse, they shall, not later than the beginning of the prescribed period ending with the date when the revocation is to take effect or the approval is due to expire, as the case may be, give notice of their intention, specifying therein the said date F1and, unless the notice has been withdrawn or extended, the warehouse shall cease to be approved on that date.
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the notice shall be given in writing and shall be deemed to have been served on all persons interested in any goods then deposited in that warehouse, or permitted under the Customs and Excise Acts 1979 to be so deposited between the date of the giving of the notice and the date specified therein, if addressed to the occupier of, and left at, the warehouse.
C1F23
If after the date on which the warehouse ceases to be approved any goods not duly cleared still remain in the former warehouse—
a
they may be taken by an officer to a Queen’s warehouse and, without prejudice to section 99(3) below, if they are not cleared from it within one month may be sold; or
b
if the Commissioners so allow, they may remain in the former warehouse and if they are not cleared from it within one month may be sold.
C13A
Where in accordance with paragraph (b) above goods remain in the warehouse after the revocation or expiry of the Commissioners’ approval—
a
subsection (6) and (7) of section 99 below shall apply to them as if they were deposited in a Queen’s warehouse under the Customs and Excise Acts 1979; and
b
sections 93, 94, 95 and 97 above and section 100 below shall apply and any security given by bond or otherwise and any condition imposed by or under the customs and excise Acts shall continue to have effect, as if the former warehouse were still a warehouse.
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F3In this section “the prescribed period” means the period of 3 months.