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The Laws of Fiji
Last Updated: 1 August 2023

[CUS 40] Warehouse keeper to provide facilities40 

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(1) Every warehouse keeper shall at his or her own expense—
  • (a)provide and maintain at the warehouse such office, lavatory and sanitary accommodation for the proper officer, with the requisite furniture, lighting and cleaning, as the Comptroller may require;
  • (b)provide and maintain such appliances and afford such other facilities, for examining and taking account of goods and for securing them, as the proper officer may require;
  • (c)stack and arrange the goods in the warehouse so as to permit reasonable access to and examination of every container at all times;
  • (d)provide all necessary labour and materials for the storing, examining, packing, marking, coopering, weighing and taking stock of the warehoused goods whenever the proper officer so reasonably requires; and
  • (e)keep a record of all goods warehoused and at all reasonable times keep such record available for examination by the proper officer.
(2) If, in respect of any warehouse, a warehouse keeper fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section, the Comptroller may direct that no further goods shall be warehoused in that warehouse until the warehouse keeper has complied with such provision or provisions to the satisfaction of the Comptroller.
(3) A warehouse keeper who contravenes any direction given by the Comptroller under the provisions of subsection (2) is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding $25,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, or both.

[subs (3) am Decree 9 of 2010 s 14, effective 1 January 2010; Act 37 of 2017 s 11, effective 30 June 2017]