The East African Customs and Transfer Tax Management Act is amended— (a) in section
114
, by substituting for subsection (1) the following—
“114. (1) Where any goods are liable to duty, then such duty shall constitute a civil debt due to the Government and be charged on the goods in respect of which the duty is payable; and such duty shall be payable by the owner of such goods and may, without prejudice to any other means of recovery, be recovered summarily by legal proceedings brought by the Director General of Customs and Excise.”;
(b)
in section
154
, by substituting for the expression “twenty thousand shillings” occurring at the end of the section, the expression “not exceeding five million shillings or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment”; (c) by substituting for the expression “Commissioner of Customs” wherever it occurs, the expression “Director General of Customs and Excise”.