Customs-Free Airport (Amendment) Act, 1958

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Restriction on carrying on of trade, business or manufacture within the airport.

7.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, no person shall carry on a trade, business or manufacture within the airport unless he is the holder of a licence authorising the carrying on of that trade, business or manufacture, as the case may be, within the airport.

(2) The restriction effected by subsection (1) of this section on the carrying on of any trade, business or manufacture within the airport shall not apply in respect of—

(a) a trade, business or manufacture which is being carried on within the airport at the commencement of this Act, or

(b) an air transport service or any activity of an air transport operator necessarily or usually associated with the operation of an air transport service,

not being the supplying for sale on or use on aircraft of any goods of a kind liable to a duty of customs or excise.

(3) A person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(4) This section shall come into operation on such day as may be fixed therefor by order of the Minister.