Section 71: Information in relation to goods imported or exported

(1)
An officer may require any person concerned in the importation or exportation of goods, or in the carriage, unloading, landing or loading of goods which are being or have been imported or exported, at any time within three years of the date of delivery to the proper officer of the entry thereof or, where no such entry was delivered, the date of importation or exportation thereof, to furnish in such form as the officer may require any information relating to the goods and to produce and allow the officer to inspect and take extracts from or make copies of any invoice, bill of lading or other book or document relating to the goods. If any such person fails to comply with any such requirement, he shall be liable to a fine of two hundred naira.
(2)
Where any prohibition is in force with respect to the exportation of goods, or of any particular class or description of goods, to any particular destination, then if any person about to load for exportation or to export any goods, or, as the case may be, any goods of that class or description, in the course of making entry thereof makes a declaration as to the ultimate destination thereof, and the Board has reason to suspect that the declaration is untrue in any material particular, the goods may be detained until the Board is satisfied as to the truth of the declaration, and if it is not so satisfied the goods shall be forfeited.
[1972 No. 10.]
(3)
Any person concerned in the exportation of any goods which are subject to any such prohibition as aforesaid shall, if so required by the Board, satisfy the Board that those goods have not reached any destination other than that mentioned in the entry outwards delivered in respect of the goods, and if he fails so to do he shall be liable to a fine of six times the value of the goods or four hundred naira, whichever is the greater, unless he proves that he did not consent to or connive at the goods reaching any destination other than that mentioned as aforesaid and that he took all reasonable steps to secure that the ultimate destination of the goods was not other than that so mentioned.