OFFICIAL GAZETTE

The Committee shall be composed of a chairman
and members not exceeding eight in number.
The Chairman and members of the Committee
shall be appointed by the Minister of Finance
from among personnel of government agencies
concerned and persons of learning and experience,
and their tenure of office shall be two years.
The Chairman and members shall serve parttime.
The following one paragraph shall be added to
Article 70:
The member shall not take part in the deliberation
of matters he has interests in.
Article 71 shall be deleted; in Article 72, "and
passed a resolution", shall be added next to "completed
its examinations"; Article 72 shall be made
Article 71; and the following one Article shall
be added next to the same Article:
Article 72. Other than those provided for in Article
69 to the preceding Article inclusive, matters
necessary to the organization and operation
of the Committee shall be determined by
Cabinet Order.
Article 73 shall be amended as follows:
Article 73. The Minister of Finance shall take
a decision on the appeal, on the basis of the
resolution under Article 71.
The complainant, who is dissatisfied with the
decision of the Minister of Finance under the
preceding paragraph, may take the case to court.
In Article 75 paragraph 3, "Import Tariff
Table No. 412-2" shall be amended as "Import
Tariff Table No. 1211-2".
In Article 79, "or overland transporter" shall
be amended as "overland carrier, export or import
declarant"; item 1 of the smae Article shall
be made item 4 of the same Article; and the numbering
of the subsequent items shall be moved
by three; and the following three items shall be
added to the same Article as items 1, 2 and 3:
1. In case the declaration made under the provisions
of Article 31 is false;
2. In case the certification made under the
provisions of Article 31-(3) is false;
3. In case the accompanying documents submitted
under the provisions of Article 32 are
false.
In Article 81, "Article 17" shall be amended
as "Article 11 or 17". v
In Article 82-(3), "Article 79 item 1 or 3"
shall be amended as "Article 79 items 1 to 4 inclusive
or item 6".
The following one Article shall be added next
to Article 85:
Article 85-(2). Any person, who has found an
article regarded as involved in offence under
Articles 74 to 76-(2) inclusive, shall promptly
submit such article to the nearest customs office,
or police station irrespective of the provisions
of the Law concerning the Lost Articles and
the Sea Casualties Rescue Law.
In the case where police officer, police official
or mayor of city, town or village regards the
articles submitted in accordance with the provision
of the preceding Article, or the lost articles,
driftages or submerged articles taken in
his custody in accordance with the provisions
of the Laws under the preceding paragraph,
as the article coming under the provision of
the preceding paragraph, he shall submit them to
the nearest customs office at once.
In Article 86, "or those articles which have
been found hidden or abandoned by suspected offender
of customs laws and regulations and those
articles which have been submitted or delivered
in accordance with the provisions of the preceding
Article" shall be added next to "documents, etc.
which have been optionally submitted by those
persons".
Article 86-(2) and Article 86-(3) shall be made
Article 86-(3) and Article 86-(4) respectively;
and the following one Article shall be added next
to Article 86:
Article 86-(2). The superintendent of custom
house shall, in case it becomes unnecessary to
keep retaining the articles, books, documents
and others which have been hold in custody in
accordance with the provisions of the preceding
Article, 'return them to the person entitled
to such return.
In case the article, which has been returned
in accordance with the provision of the preceding!
paragraph, is the one submitted or delivered
in pursuance of the provisions of Article 85-
(2), the receiver in such article shall pay the
finder of such article an amount not less than
five-hundredths and not more than twentyhundredths
of the value of such article as reward;
provided however, that any finder of such
article, who has failed, within seven day as from
the day of the finding, to go through the formalities
under Article 1 paragraph 1 or Article
11 paragraph 1 of the Law concerning the Lost
Articles, Article 24 paragraph 1 of the Sea
Casualities Rescue Law, or Article 85-(2) paragraph
1 of this Law, and any person, who has
found such article in the course of his official
duty, shall not claim for such reward.
When, on account of the unknown whereabout
of the person, who is entitled to the return of
article under the provision of paragraph 1, or
for, other reasons, the return of such article
is unable to be effected, the superintendent of
custom house shall make public notice to that
effect.
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