Exchange control—Currency notes—Forfeiture—Notice—Forfeiture of currency notes
different from seizure of goods under N.R.C.D. 114—Definition of goods—Whether
Comptroller of Customs and Excise empowered by N.R.C.D. 114, s. 84 to seize
currency notes with view to forfeiture—Seizure of currency notes by Border Guards
under purported authority of N.R.C.D. 114—Whether seizure legitimate— Whether
victim obliged to give notice to comptroller—Customs Ordinance, Cap. 167 (1951
Rev.) —Customs and Excise Decree, 1972 (N.R.C.D. 114), ss. 84 and 275.
Exchange control—Currency notes—Forfeiture—Circumstances justifying seizure of
currency under section 28 of Act 242—Importation of C.F.A. francs into the country
not prohibited by any enactment—Whether Act 242, ss. 23-28 applicable in case of
importation of C.F.A. francs—Whether section 23 (2) of Act 242 applicable in case of
transit passenger—Currency Act, 1964 (Act 242), ss. 23-28—Currency (Amendment)
Decree, 1974 (N.R.C.D. 295)—Currency (Amendment) Decree, 1977 (S.M.C.D.
100)—Currency (Conditions of Importation and Exportation of Currency Notes)
Instrument, 1965 (L.I. 486).