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Inspection of imported articles

Type Class Valid From Valid To
Inspection Requirement Goods 27/10/2008
Summary:

When importing regulated articles, you must present them for inspection by a plant quarantine officer as soon as possible after arrival or at a directed time and place. You cannot move the article until the officer gives written consent, and failure to comply can result in a fine up to N$20,000 or imprisonment for up to 2 years.
Description:

5. (1) The person in charge of a conveyance by means of which a regulated article required to be declared in terms of section 4(2)(b) is imported -

(a) must present that article for inspection by a plant quarantine officer -

(i) at the place of entry as soon as is reasonably possible after its arrival in Namibia; or
(ii) at any other time and at a place reasonably directed by the plant quarantine officer;

(b) may not remove that article from the place referred to in paragraph (a)(i) or (ii) before the plant quarantine officer has consented in writing to its removal

(2) On application of a person importing any regulated articles, and on payment of the prescribed fee, a plant quarantine officer may carry out an inspection in terms of subsection (1) at any time outside the officer’s regular service hours as agreed between the importer and the plant quarantine officer.

(3) A person who fails to comply with subsection (1), or a direction of a plant quarantine officer given under that subsection, commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding N$20 000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 2 years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Commodities Affected by the Measure

# HS Code Description
1 1701 Cane or beet sugar in solid form
2 2401 Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
3 1201 Soya beans, whether or not broken
4 1202 Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken
5 1203 Copra
6 1204 Linseed, whether or not broken
7 1205 Rape or colza seed, whether or not broken
8 1209 Seeds, fruits and spores, of a kind used for sowing
9 1210 Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in form pellets; lupulin
10 0601 Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant, in growth or in flower: chicory plants and roots (excluding roots of heading)
11 0602 Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn
12 0603 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared
13 0604 Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without flowers or flower buds, and grasses, mosses and lichens being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared
14 2001 Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid
15 2002 Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
16 2003 Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
17 2004 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen (excluding products of heading 20.06
18 2005 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen (excluding products of heading 20.06)
19 2006 Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised)
20 2007 Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
21 2008 Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or r included
22 2009 Fruit or nut juices (including grape must and coconut water) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
23 1211 Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered
24 1212 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety CICHORIUM INTYBUS SATIVUM) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included
25 1213 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets
26 1214 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets
27 1507 Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
28 1508 Ground-nut oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
29 4411 Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances
30 4412 Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood
31 4413 Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes
32 4415 Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood
33 4418 Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes

Procedures Implementing the Measure

1 Procedure for applying for the import permit of plants and plant products
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Import Import permit 3 Months No
2 Procedure for applying for transit permits of plants and plants products.
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Transit Transit permit 21 Days No

Legal Documents Related to the Measure

Name Type Category
Promulgation of Plant Quarantine Act, 2008 (Act No. 7 of 2008) of the Parliament Act Import/Export