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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, AC.
I M P O R T T)\JTY-conlinued.
T A B L E O F EXEMPTIONS—eontinuod.
Demijohns sealed on exportation may be re-admitted duty free after identification; Hospital
appliances or equipment certified under tbe hand of the Chief Medical Officer to be imported
for the use of any Hospital ; Postage Stamps—used or unused—other than those of Cyprus;
Empty cardboard boxes and labels which the Chief Collector of Customs is satisfied
are for use in connection with the raising of silk-worm eggs in Cyprus; Iron piping which tbe
High Commissioner is satisfied is for work of public utility and imported by or on behalf of any
Public, Municipal or Local Body or Authority; All manure and. fertilisers, guano, bonedust,
and all chemical manures and preparations to be used as manure ; Pig iron; Dutiable articles
and articles sent nway for the purpose of alteration or repair provided : (1) that prior to
exportation such articles shall have been produced to tbe Customs for the purpose of identifica–
tion on re-importation, (2) or that the Chief Collector of Customs is satisfied that the articles
are the same, (3) and that the re-importation takes place within one year from tlie date of
exportation ; Disinfectants imported in bulk (i.e., packages each weighing not less than 10 okes
or in drums each not less than five gallons); Bona fid* baggage accompanying a passenger or
foUowing by vessel within two months ; Resin ; Crude Petroleum when imported as Fuel for oil
engines ; Appliances and equipment for any Municipal Poor House certified by Commissioner
of the District as specially imported fpr the purpose.
Flax seed.
DRAWBACK OP IMPOET DUTT.
When any Import Dnty shall have been paid in respect of any wine, spirits, malt liquors,
tobacco, cigars, or articles of food supplied for the use of any mess on board any of His
Majesty's ships of war, a drawback of the amount of the duty so paid may be allowed, or if
such goods are shipped from the Customs store before paymeut of duty, the amount of such
dnty may be remitted on the production of a certificate from tbe proper officer of Customs
that such goods have been actually shipped on board one of His Majesty's ships, a receipt
from the Paymaster of such ship for the goods and a written undertaking from the Paymaster
or other proper officer of such ship that if such goods or any part thereof shall be at any time
re-landed, the duty shall be paid thereon.
Iu lieu of drawback of import duty paid in respect of any wine, spirits, malt liquors,
tobacco, cigars or articles of food imported and subsequently actually consumed or used by
His Majesty's Land Forces, fixed money allowances are paid' out of the Island Treasury to
the Officers and Soldiers of His Majesty's Land Forces quartered within the Island.
A refund m a y be m a d e of ninety per cent, of the import duty paid on any motor car
or motor cycle imported by and for the use of any visitor to Cyprus. Provided that a
declaration in the prescribed form is made by the visitor on the importation of the motor
car or motor cycle, and provided that the motor car or motor cycle is exported by the
visitor within three months from the date of the importation thereof.
AUTHOklTT.
Orders in Council No.
813 of 22nd Sept, 1920,
published in Gazette No.
1450 of 22nd Sept, 1920,
No. 838, Gatette No.
1481 of 10th June, 1921,
anrl No. 870, Gazette
No. 1620 of Slst March,
1922.
Order in Council No.
966,
Gazette So. 1617 of
Slat Dece
Law No.
22 of
1899,
sec.
20.
Law
No.
22 of
18t»,
sec.
19.
Law No.
33 of
1922,
sec.
3.
PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTS AND
EXPORTS.
The following are the Prohibitions and Restrictions on Imports and Exports :—
I M P O R T S .
GOATS.—Importation prohibited, save under permit of High Commissioner, Law 10 of 1888.
L O C U S T
EGGS.—Importation prohibited, sec. 8 and 9, Law 11 of 1881.
SILKWORMS.—Importation prohibited.
S J X K W O H M
EGGS.—Importation prohibited except under the following conditions :—
That the permission in writing of the Director of Agriculture is previously obtained; and
That the importation is completed between the lst October and 31st January; and
That each box of any consignment of eggs is sealed by a banderolle affixed by the
Government authority responsible for the silkworm industry in the country of
origin ; and
That every consignment of eggs imported into Cyprus is accompanied by an official
certificate of the Government authority specified above, such certificate or other
document produced by the importer to be approved by the Director of Agriculture
before the consignment of eggs is passed through the Customs. Each box of the con–
signment shall be banderolled by a Sericulture Inspector with a Cyprus banderolle,
or, if the Director of Agriculture refuses to allow the importation, the importer
will be permitted to re-export the eggs within a month from the date of such refusal
and failing snoh re-exportation within such period the said eggs shall be destroyed
without compensation. The Customs authorities must notify the Director of
Agriculture of the date of such re-exportation or destruction.
JjnaGRANTS (Destitute, criminal and vicious).—Landing prohibited, unless security given for
support or for deportation, Gazette 1419 of 16th April, 1920, p. 142.—See CS. Circular
No. 4123/06 of 14th February, 1907.
Law
No.
22 of
1922.
•ec.
3.
I
Law
22 of
1922,
sec
4 (1), and Order in
Council No. 899 pub. in
Gazette No. 15S6 of 4th
August, 1922.
Law
No.
1
of
1882.