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(3) The written declaration referred to in subsections (1) and (2) shall be made in such form as the Director may specify from time to time.

(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars.

10. (1) The owner of a vessel, aircraft or vehicle shall not accept any prohibited article for export on the vessel, aircraft or vehicle until there is produced to him an export licence issued under this Ordinance or some other law in respect of the prohibited article.

(2) Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of fifty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one year.

(3) It shall be a defence to a charge under this section if the defendant proves that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have known that the article to which the charge relates was a prohibited article.

11. (1) When a licence has been issued under this Ordinance for the export of an article, the owner of the article shall, before it is exported, deliver the licence to the owner of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle in or on which he intends to export it.

(2) The owner of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle in or on which an article in respect of which an export licence has been issued under this Ordinance is exported shall, within fourteen days after the day on which the article is exported, deliver the export licence to the Director, together with a certified copy of certified extract of the manifest of the vessel, aircraft or vehicle in or on which the article has been exported.

(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars.

12. (1) For the purpose of determining whether or not an article which—
 * (a) has been imported within the period of six months preceding the date when a request is made under this subsection for the production of the same; or
 * (b) is intended to be exported,

is a prohibited article, the person in possession or control of the article shall, if required to do so by the Director, an authorized