CUSTOMS AND EXCISE MANAGEMENT ACT

Section 84: Warehouse keeper to provide facilities

1959Section 84 of 195Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Every warehouse keeper shall -
(a)
at his own expense 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 Board may direct;
(b)
at his own expense 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)
at his own expense stack and arrange the goods in the warehouse so as to permit reasonable access to and examination of every container or lot of such goods at all times;
(d)
at his own expense 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 requires.
(2)
Where any warehouse keeper fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section, the Board may direct that no further goods shall be warehoused by that warehouse keeper until he has complied with such provision or provisions to the satisfaction of the Board.
(3)
Any warehouse keeper who contravenes any direction given by the Board under subsection (2) of this section shall be liable to a fine of two hundred naira and, in addition thereto, to a fine of twenty naira for every day, or part of a day, during which such contravention continues.

Cite this section

Section 84, CUSTOMS AND EXCISE MANAGEMENT ACT (1959).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/customs-and-excise-management-act/section/84/