Commencement: 18 June 1984

LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF VANUATU
REVISED EDITION 1988

CHAPTER 176

IMPORT OF GOODS (CONTROL)

Act 19 of 1984
Act 12 of 1985

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION
1.	Interpretation
2.	Minister may prohibit or restrict imports
3.	Exemption
4.	Offences
5.	Forfeiture

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IMPORT OF GOODS (CONTROL)

To authorise the Minister to control and prohibit the importation of certain goods into Vanuatu and to provide for matters in relation thereto.

INTERPRETATION

1.	In this Act -

"goods" means any merchandise including animals, birds and fish, any minerals and other substances and generally articles of any description;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for industry.

MINISTER MAY PROHIBIT OR RESTRICT IMPORTS

2.	(1)	For the purpose of protecting and stimulating local industry the Minister may by Order either restrict or prohibit the importation of goods into Vanuatu or specified parts thereof.

(2)	An Order restricting or prohibiting the importation of goods may prescribe such conditions as the Minister may consider necessary therefor.

(3)	An Order restricting the importation of goods may limit the importation to prescribed categories of businesses.

EXEMPTION

3.	(1)	There shall be exempt from any Order made under section 2 all goods which shall have been consigned for shipment to Vanuatu before the date of the coming into operation of that Order.

(2)	In any proceedings under this Act the burden of proving that any goods are exempt from an Order shall be upon the person claiming the exemption.

OFFENCES

4.	Any person who contravenes the provisions of any Order made under this Act shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: fine of VT100,000 or imprisonment for 6 months or both.

FORFEITURE

5.	Where a person is convicted of an offence under this Act the court may, in addition to any other penalty imposed, order that any goods in relation to which the offence was committed be forfeited.

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

IMPORT OF GOODS (MISCELLANEOUS CONTROLS) REGULATIONS

Order 28 of 1987
Order 38 of 1987

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

REGULATION

1.	Restriction as to the importation of miscellaneous items
2.	Application for a licence
3.	Form of application
4.	Form of licence
SCHEDULE 1-Goods or commodities in respect of which an import licence is required
SCHEDULE 2-Import licence

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

IMPORT OF GOODS (MISCELLANEOUS CONTROLS) REGULATIONS

To restrict the importation of miscellaneous items into the Republic of Vanuatu.

RESTRICTION AS TO THE IMPORTATION OF MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 

1.	No person may import into the Republic of Vanuatu any of the goods which are described and specified under the customs tariff headings set out in Schedule 1 without an import licence issued therefor by the Minister.

APPLICATION FOR A LICENCE

2.	An application for a licence in pursuance of these regulations shall be made in the first instance to the Minister.

FORM OF APPLICATION

3.	An application for a licence shall be in writing and shall contain such information as the Minister may in each case require.

FORM OF LICENCE

4.	(1)	A licence issued under these regulations shall be in the form set out in Schedule 2, and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the licence.

(2)	The Minister may add to or vary the conditions to which a licence is subject.

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SCHEDULE 1
(regulation 1)

GOODS OR COMMODITIES IN RESPECT OF WHICH
AN IMPORT LICENCE IS REQUIRED

Item				Tariff Item		Description

Rice				10.06.09		semi-milled or wholly milled
whether or not polished or glazed; broken rice

11.01.01		of wheat or meslin

Canned fish			16.04.01		mackerel or sardines, prepared
16.04.09		canned

Sugar				17.01.09

Tobacco products		24.01.00		unmanufactured tobacco: tobacco
24.02.01		refuse cigars, cheroots and cigarillos
24.02.02	cigarettes with a tar content not exceeding 10 mg per cigarette

24.02.03	cigarettes with a tar content
24.02.04	exceeding 10 mg per cigarette
24.02.09	stick tobacco other manufactured tobacco

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SCHEDULE 2
(regulation 4)

IMPORT LICENCE

THIS LICENCE IS/IS NOT TRANSFERABLE

Phone: 2951 Ext. 34
Ref: ________________________
Licence No. __________________

Under the provisions of the Import of Goods (Miscellaneous Controls) Regulations a licence is hereby granted to the person specified herein as "Owner" to import goods which, by reference to Part I of the table hereunder -

(a)	conform to the description in column 3;

(b)	fall within the item, sub-item, paragraph or subparagraph of Schedule 1 to the Import Duties (Consolidation) Act, Cap. 91 specified in column 1 in relation to that description; and

(c)	are not in total during the period specified in paragraph (i) hereunder in excess of the quantity or value for duty, as the case may be, specified in column 2.

This licence is granted subject to compliance with -

(i)	the requirement that the goods are imported for home consumption:

not earlier than the		day of		19.		and,

not later than the		day of		19		and

(ii)	such other conditions or requirements, if any, as are specified in Part II of the table.

THE TABLE

PART I
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COLUMN 1			COLUMN 2			COLUMN 3
Tariff classification/s	Quantity/Value for duty	Description	

			

PART II

			

Quota period			Licence no.			is hereby revoked
Reference

Owner	[			]	Owner code

Customs stamp		Office use only

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Minister

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