Notice of Seizure of Goods under the Customs & Excise Management Act 1979

To the Owner of the following goods detained on the 16th day of September 2010 at Belfast International Airport, Belfast, BT29 4AB.

 23,600 Canary Kingdom cigarettes

Pursuant to Section 139(6) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and paragraph (1) of Schedule 3 thereto, the Commissioners of Customs and Excise hereby give you notice that, by virtue of the powers contained in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and enactments amending that Act, the aforesaid goods have been seized as liable to forfeiture upon the grounds that:

(a) The cigarettes and tobacco have not borne UK Excise duty.

Whereby and by force of Section 49 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 the aforesaid cigarettes are liable for forfeiture.

If you claim that all or any of the aforesaid goods are not liable to forfeiture you must, within one month from the date of this notice of seizure, give notice of your claim in writing to the Commissioners at an office of UK Border Agency. Your notice must also specify your name and address, the goods claimed as not liable to forfeiture and, if you are outside the United Kingdom the name and address of a solicitor in the United Kingdom who is authorised to accept service of process and to act on your behalf. In default of such notice all the aforesaid goods will be deemed to have been duly condemned as forfeited. If you give notice as set out above, legal proceedings will be taken for the condemnation of all goods claimed as not liable to forfeiture.

E. O’Hare, Officer of UKBA, Carne House, 20 Corry Place, Belfast BT3 9HY