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any permission or consent has been granted under this Act, or under any corresponding provi-sion of the law in force in any territory comprised in the scheduled territories, subject to a condition

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any statement or declaration has been made under any provision of this Act or any such corres-ponding provision as aforesaid that any goods are to be sold outside the scheduled territories; or

any currency has been obtained in, or by any person resident in, the scheduled territories on the faith of an application stating an intention that any goods should be sold outside the scheduled terri-tories;

then, except with the permission of the Controller, no person resident in Brunei who is entitled to sell or procure the sale of the said goods shall do, or refrain from doing, any act with intent to secure -

that the said sale is delayed to an extent which is unreasonable having regard to the ordinary course of trade; or

any permission or consent has been granted under this Act, or under any corresponding provi-sions of the law in force in any territory comprised in the scheduled territories, subject to a condition providing that, or on the faith of an application stating an intention that, any goods should be im-ported from outside the scheduled territories into any part of the scheduled territories; or 33

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any currency has been obtained in, or by any person resident in, the scheduled territories on the faith of an application stating an intention that any goods should be so imported;

then, except with the permission of the Controller, no per-son resident in Brunei who is entitled to procure the im-portation of the said goods shall do, or refrain from doing, any act with intent to secure that the importation thereof is delayed to an extent which is unreasonable having regard to the ordinary course of trade.

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the goods have not been sold or imported as indicated by the condition, statement or declara-tion within the time thereby indicated or, if no time is thereby indicated, a reasonable time, or (in either case) within such further time as may be allowed by the Controller; or

it appears to the Controller that the goods cannot be sold or imported as indicated by the condition, statement or declaration;

the Controller may give to any person resident in Brunei who appears to him to be in a position to give effect thereto such directions as appear to him to be expedient as to the manner in which the goods are to be dealt with.

( 4) Without prejudice to the generality of the provi-sions of subsection (3), the power conferred thereby on the

Controller to give directions shall extend to the giving of directions that the goods shall be assigned to the Controller or to a person specified in the directions.