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SPECIFICATION OP TAXES, DUTIES, &C.
PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
AUTHORITT.
1 Gazette No. 1072,
j p. 8077.
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Order of High Com–
missioner in Council
published in Gazette No.
692 of 1st March, 1901,
IMPORTS—continued.
DOGS.—Importation from any place is prohibited, except at Larnaca where they shall be subject
to inspection and detention in quarantine as the Director of Agriculture m a y direct.
The importation into the Island of the under-mentioned goods articles and merchandise
is prohibited absolutely:
(1). Silver or copper coins.
(2). Beshliks, aitiliks or metallique piastres.
(3). All sovereigns aud half sovereigns coined before the reign of Her late Most
Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.
(4). All sovereigns and half sovereigns which are below the least current weight as
defined in " T h e Coinage Act, 1870," or are otherwise not legally current in England.
(5). The substance known as Hashish.
(6). Salt other tinan table and rock salt.
T h e importation of the under-mentioned goods, articles and merchandise is subject to the / Order of High Com-
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following restrictions :
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(a.) at the ports of Larnaca, Limassol aud Famagusta, and
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(i.) without a special license under the hand of the Chief Secretary issued under f 2 S S 1 N a M l S ^ e £
L a w 24 of 1879, sec. 30.
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(2). The importation of gunpowder (except for the use of his Majesty's Naval and
Military forces) is prohibited except—
(a.) at the ports of Larnaca and Limassol (for Famagusta see (2) below).
(i.) in kegs or barrels of a capacity not exceeding ten okes or in flasks of 1 lb. or of
\ lb. except where the High Commissioner has by special permission authorised
the importation in some other manner.
(3). The importation of shot, percussion caps, cartridges (other than ball cartridges)
and side-arms is restricted to the ports of Larnaca, Limassol and Famagusta.
(4). The importation of ball cartridges or of ball cartridge-cases except for the use of
His Majesty's Naval and Military forces is prohibited, except—
(a.) at the ports of Larnaca, Limassol aud Famagusta, and
(b.) with the special permission of the High Commissioner.
(5). (I)..The importation of dynamite, nitroglycerine,gun-cotton, fulminate of mercury
or of other metals or of any kindred substance is prohibited—
(a.) except at the port of Larnaca (a) (for Famagusta see (2) below), and
{b.) with the special permission of the High Commissioner, such permission being
in writing under the hand of the Chief Secretary to Government and subject to
such conditions as the High Commissioner, may think fit to impose.
(2). Gunpowder, Shot, Percussion Caps, Cartridges (ball and shot) Dynamite, Nitro–
glycerine, Guncotton, Blasting powder, Fulminate, of Mercury or other metals, and
every other substance or preparation used or manufactured for explosive or pyro–
technic purposes, Fog signals, Rockets, Fireworks, Fuzes, Detonators and Ammunition
of all descriptions, including empty.cartridge cases, m a y be imported at the Port
of Famagusta by such person or persons as may be authorised in that behalf by
special permission of the High Commissioner given under the hand of the Chief
. Secretary to Government, and subject to such limitations as to quantity as the High
Commissioner may see fit to impose; and upon such importation the said articles
shall be landed at such place and in such manner as the Commissioner and Principal
Officer of Customs of the District of Famagusta shall appoint (b).
(6). The landing in Cyprus of cattle, horns, hoofs, bones, fodder, litter or dung from
vessels arriving from places where cattle disease has been publicly notified to exist,
is prohibited.
Order in Council No.
SOS published in Gazette
No. 1036 of 15th March,.
1912.
(a) Order of High Com–
missioner in Council No..
359 published in Gazette
No. 738 of 29th August.
1902.
(b) Order in Council No.
407 published in Gazette
No. S43 of 12th January,.
1906.
Order in Council No.
517 published in Gazette
No. 1035 of 1st March.
1912.
Order in Council No.
418 nublisbed in Gazette
No. "858 of 29th June.
1906.
(a) May be imported at Limassol for a period of two years from 1st April, 1913, by the Cyprian Mining Company, Limited. See
Gazette No. 1075, p. 8105.
(J) Permission has been jriven to Messrs. H a m m e r k Thomson. Malta, on behalf of Nobel's Explosive Company, Glasgow, to import
and store in two specially constructed Magazines, North of Famagusta. any quantity of above Explosives, n. e. in weight 15 ti»ns.
exclusive of detonators, safetv fuze, sporting cartridges, and other accessories such as cables and batteries. (Order of High Commissionti of
W t h August, ISutJ, C.S. 18r3"/04.)
N.B.—Messrs. Hammer k Thomson pay a rental of £.6 on 1st August each year in order to meet expenses in connection with.
guarding (Art. 1, Agreement of 18th May, 1905, C.S. 1873/04.)