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(1) Power to prohibit or restrict import and export of goods.- The Government may by notified order make provision for prohibiting, restricting or otherwise controlling in all cases or in specified classes of cases and subject to such exceptions, if any, as may be made, by or under, the import, export, carriage coastwise or shipment as ships' stores of all goods or goods of any specified description. (2) Where by an order made under sub-section (1) the import or export or the carriage coastwise or the shipment as ships' stores is prohibited, restricted or otherwise controlled, such goods shall be deemed to be, goods of which the import or export has been prohibited or restricted under Section 18 of the Travancore or Cochin Sea Customs Act, and all the provisions of the said Acts shall have effect accordingly except that Section 165 of the Travancore Sea Customs Act and Section 182 of the Cochin Sea Customs Act shall have effect as if for the word "shall" in those sections the word "may" were substituted. (3) Penalty.- If any person contravenes any order made or deemed to be made under this section, he shall without prejudice to the confiscation, or penalty to which he may be liable under the provisions of the Sea Customs Acts as applied by Sub-section (2), to be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both. (4) In this section, - (a) "import" means bringing into the State of Travancore Cochin by sea, land or air; (b) "export" means taking out of the State of Travancore Cochin by sea, land or air,