Section 18: Goods may be removed to warehouse

18. Goods may be removed to warehouse.—(1) Whenever goods which have been landed have, without any default on the part of the Board, been left for five clear days on or in any wharf of shed belonging to the Board, the Board may cause such goods to be removed either to any warehouse belonging to it, or, with the consent of the Collector of Customs, to a public warehouse; and the removal to and detention in any such warehouse shall be at the risk and expense of the owner of the said goods. (2) Whenever any goods are so removed, the Board shall give notice of such removal to the consignee or other person concerned by notification in the official Gazette specifying therein the name 1Subs. by the Port Qasim Authority (Amendment) Act, 2021 (XL of 2021), s. 8. of the ship which brought the goods, the date of her arrival, and the numbers, marks and descriptions of the goods so far as the same appear and the consignee of such goods or other person to whom notice has been given as aforesaid, in addition to the expenses of the removal of the same, shall be liable, in case the goods are removed to any warehouse of the Board, to a charge for warehousing for the time during which the goods shall remain in the said warehouse. (3) If the goods are removed to a public warehouse, the said consignee shall be liable to the charges for warehousing goods in such public warehouse and the said goods shall remain subject to all liens to which they would have been liable if they had remained in the possession of the Board, and shall be subject to the power of sale hereinafter given.

Effective date: 1973-01-01

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