CHAPTER - IV

PROHIBITION AND RESTRICTION OF IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION

15. Prohibitions.- No goods specified in the following clauses shall be brought whether by air or land or sea, into 3[Bangladesh] :-
(a) counterfeit coin;
(b) forged or counterfeit currency notes;
(c) any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, painting, representation, figure, photograph, film or article;
(d) goods having applied thereto a counterfeit trade mark within the meaning of the 1[Penal Code] (Act XLV of 1860), or a false trade description within the meaning of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1889 (IV of 1889);
(e) goods made or produced outside 2[Bangladesh] and having applied thereto any name or trade mark, being or purporting to be the name or trade mark of any manufacturer, dealer or trader in 2[Bangladesh] unless-
(i) the name or trade mark is, as to every application thereof, accompanied by a definite indication of the goods having been made or produced in a place outside 2[Bangladesh]; and
(ii) the country in which that place is situated is in that indication shown in letters as large and conspicuous as any letter in the name or trade mark, and in the same language and character as the name or trade mark;
(f) piece-goods manufactured outside 2[Bangladesh] (such as are ordinarily sold by length or by the piece), unless the real length thereof in standard 3[meters] or other measurement for the time being applying in 2[Bangladesh] has been conspicuously stamped on each piece in Arabic numerals; and
(g) goods made or produced outside 2[Bangladesh] and intended for sale, and having applied thereto, a design in which copy-right exists under the Patents and Designs Act, 1911 (II of 1911) in respect of the class to which the goods belong or any fraudulent or obvious imitation of such design except when the application of such design has been made with the licence or written consent of the registered proprietor of the design:
4[Provided that the Government may, by an order in writing, condone, subject to such conditions, limitations or restrictions, if any, as it thinks fit to impose, any classes of goods from the provisions mentioned in sub-section (d), (e), (f) and (g).]
16. Power to prohibit or restrict importation and exportation of goods.- The 5[Government] may, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, prohibit or restrict the bringing into or taking out of 1[Bangladesh] of any goods of specified description by air, sea or land.

17. Detention and confiscation of goods imported in breach of section 15 or section 16.- Where any goods are imported into or attempted to be exported out of 1[Bangladesh] in violation of the provisions of the section 15 or of a notification under section 16, such goods shall, without prejudice to any other penalty to which the offender may be liable under this Act, or any other law, but subject to rules, be liable to detention and confiscation.

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3 Subs. by Act XXII of 1980, s. 11 (1) (a), for "Pakistan", w.e.f. 1st July 1980.
1 Subs. by Act XXII of 1980, s. 11 (1) (d), for “Pakistan Penal Code, w.e.f. 1st July 1980.
2 Subs. ibid. s. 11 (1) (a), for "Pakistan".
3 Subs. by Act XXI of 1992, s.. 6(5), for "yards", w.e.f. 1st July 1992.
4 Substituted by Act 12 of 1995, s. 5 (5), w.e.f. 1st July 1995.
5 Subs. by Act XXII of 1980, s. 11 (1) (b), for "Central Government" w.e.f. 1st July 1980.
1 Subs. by Act XXII of 1980, s. 11 (1) (a), for "Pakistan" w.e.f. 1st July 1980.