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Cook Islands Customs Import Prohibition Ordinance 1960

COOK ISLANDS

COOK ISLANDS CUSTOMS IMPORT PROHIBITION ORDINANCE 1960

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short title and commencement
2. Importation and sale of medicinal preparations containing camphor prohibited
3. Offences and penalties

1960, No. 1

[NB: In this Ordinance, read "Minister of Customs" for "High Commissioner" - see Act 1966/2]

An Ordinance of the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands to prohibit the importation into and the sale of certain medicinal preparations in the Cook Islands.

(7 July 1960.)

1. Short title and commencement

(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Cook Islands Customs Import Prohibition Ordinance 1960.

(2) This Ordinance shall come into force on the day on which it is assented to by the [High Commissioner] of the Cook Islands.

[The words "High Commissioner" were substituted for the words "Resident Commissioner" by S.3(4) of the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1965.]

2. Importation and sale of medicinal preparations containing camphor prohibited

(1) No person other than the Chief Medical Officer shall import into the Cook Islands or receive or hold for sale or sell or supply to any other person or cause to be sold or supplied to any other person, any medicinal preparation containing camphor.

(2) For the purpose of this section "medicinal preparation" shall include any preparation or mixture intended for internal use or for both internal or external use.

(3) Notice shall be given from time to time in the Cook Islands Gazette of the trade names or brands of all medicinal preparations the importation and sale of which by persons other than the Chief Medical Officer is prohibited under this Ordinance.

(4) At any time after such notification any Medical Officer or Officer of Customs or Police may seize any medicinal preparation the importation or sale of which is prohibited by this section and any such preparation shall thereupon become the property of the Crown and shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Chief Medical Officer may direct.

3. Offences and Penalties

(1) Every person who obstructs any Medical Officer or Officer of Customs or Police in the lawful exercise of his right of seizure under this Ordinance shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(2) Every person who commits a breach of Section 2(1) of this Ordinance shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.