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Inspection of imported plants, plant products and regulated article

Type Class Valid From Valid To
Inspection Requirement Goods 27/06/2012
Summary:

Inspections must occur between 08:00 and 17:00, Monday to Friday, and any inspection outside these hours requires a payment, while a clearance certificate will be issued upon payment of the specified fee.
Description:

5. (1) Any inspection referred to in section 5(1) of the Act or regulations made under section 22(1) of the Act must be carried between the hours of 08:00 to 17:00, from Monday to Friday.

(2) Any inspection carried out outside the specified hours referred to in subregulation (1) is subject to the payment of the amount set out in paragraph B of Annexure 2.

Clearance certificate

6. On payment of the fee specified in paragraph C of Annexure 2, an inspector must issue a clearance certificate on Form AP 3 set out in Annexure 1.

Commodities Affected by the Measure

# HS Code Description
1 1701 Cane or beet sugar in solid form
2 2008 Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants otherwise prepared of preserved
3 2401 Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
4 1201 Soya beans, whether or not broken
5 1202 Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken
6 1203 Copra
7 1204 Linseed, whether or not broken
8 1205 Rape or colza seed, whether or not broken
9 1209 Seeds, fruits and spores, of a kind used for sowing
10 1210 Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in form pellets; lupulin
11 0210 Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:
12 0601 Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant, in growth or in flower: chicory plants and roots (excluding roots of heading)
13 0602 Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn
14 0603 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared
15 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
16 2001 Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid
17 2002 Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
18 2003 Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
19 2004 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen (excluding products of heading 20.06
20 2005 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen (excluding products of heading 20.06)
21 2006 Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised)
22 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
23 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
24 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
25 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
26 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
27 1213 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets
28 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

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
Regulations relating to Issuing of Import Permits, Examination of Imported Plants, Diseases or Insects, and Lodging of Appeals Regulation Import/Export