Cap. 37 Art. 32Forfeiture of explosive substances not duly declared. S. 2 of Ord. IV of 1885,incorporated.

(1) When any parcel of goods landed from a vessel arriving in

Malta from any place beyond the seas, shall be found to contain any explosive substance, in reference to which the Minister responsible for customs shall have exercised the power vested in him under the last preceding article, and the existence of which in such parcel shall not have been expressly declared in the report mentioned in article 6 such substance together with any other goods contained in the said parcel or forming part thereof, shall be forfeited, even though the omission of the aforesaid declaration was due to the fact that the master, at the time of the presentation of the said report, was not aware of the existence of such explosive substance in the parcel aforesaid.

(2) Such forfeiture shall take place without the necessity of ipso jure, any judicial procedure.