The Cargo (Clearing and Forwarding) (Amendment) Act, 1981 [Margin: Short title.]

7 SIGNED this *9th* day of *June, 1981.* SIAKA STEVENS, *President.* (LS) No. 4 — 1981 Sierra Leone The Cargo (Clearing and Forwarding) (Amendment) Act, 1981 [Margin: Short title.] Being an Act to amend the Cargo (Clearing and Forwarding) Act; and for matters connected thereto [*11th June, 1981*] [Margin: Date of Commencement.]

Subsection (1) of section 2 of the Cargo (Clearing and Forwarding) Act, 1974 (hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act") is hereby repealed and replaced by the following new subsection— [Margin: Amendment of Section 2 of Act No. 5 of 1974.] 8 — No. 4 *Cargo (Clearing and Forwarding) (Amendment)* 1981 [Margin: "Licence required for clearing and forwarding cargo in port.] 2(1) Subject to the provisions of section 13, no person shall clear or forward air or sea freight cargo in any port in Sierra Leone unless he is in possession of a valid licence issued, in writing for the purpose, by the Minister on the recommendation of the Board.".

Section 10 of the principal Act is hereby repealed and replaced by the following new section— [Margin: Amendment of Section 10 of Act No. 5 of 1974.] [Margin: "Offences] 10. (1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) of section 2 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding two thousand leones or imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both such fine and imprisonment. (2) If the offence for which a person under subsection (1) is convicted is continued after such conviction such person shall be guilty on conviction and shall be liable in respect thereof to a fine not exceeding five hundred leones for every day on which the offence is continued or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment. (3) Any person who makes a statement knowingly to be false shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five hundred leones or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.".

(*a*) by deleting at the end of sub-paragraph (*a*) the word "and"; (*b*) by the addition, immediately after sub-paragraph (*b*) the word "and"; and (*c*) by the addition, immediately after sub-paragraph (*b*) the following new sub-paragraph (*c*)— No. 4 *Cargo (Clearing and Forwarding) (Amendment)* 1981 — 9 "(*c*) to impose penalties for breach of any Rules made under this Act.". Passed in Parliament this *27th* day of *March*, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one. J. W. E. DAVIES, *Clerk of Parliament.* THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. W. E. DAVIES, *Clerk of Parliament.*