Part V Control of Exportation
Outward entry and clearance of ships, etc.
64 Clearance outwards of F1vehicles.
(1)
F2No vehicle other than a road vehicle is to depart from the United Kingdom until clearance for departure has been obtained from the proper officer.
F3(1A)
The Commissioners may by regulations make provision disapplying the requirement to obtain clearance in specified circumstances.
(2)
The Commissioners may give directions—
(a)
as to the procedure for obtaining clearance under this section;
(b)
as to the documents to be produced and the information to be furnished by any person applying for such clearance.
(3)
Where clearance is sought under this section for any ship which is in ballast or has on board no goods other than stores, the baggage of passengers carried in that ship, chalk, slate, or empty returned containers upon which no freight or profit is earned, the proper officer in granting clearance thereof shall, on the application of the master, clear the ship as in ballast.
(4)
Any officer may board any ship which is cleared outwards from a port at any time while the ship is F4in United Kingdom waters and require the production of the ship’s clearance, and if the master refuses to produce it or to answer such questions as the officer may put to him concerning the ship, cargo and intended voyage, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of F5level 1 on the standard scale.
(5)
Every ship departing from a port shall, if so required for the purpose of disembarking an officer or of further examination, bring to at the boarding station, and if any ship fails to comply with any such requirement the master shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of F5level 2 on the standard scale.
(6)
(7)
If, F10where any vehicle is required under this section to obtain clearance to depart the United Kingdom, any goods are loaded, or are waterborne for loading, into that vehicle before application for clearance has been made, the goods shall be liable to forfeiture and, where the loading or making waterborne is done with fraudulent intent, any person concerned therein with knowledge of that intent shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and may be detained.
(8)
A person guilty of an offence under subsection (7) above shall be liable—
(a)
(b)
on conviction on indictment, to a penalty of any amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to both.