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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES,
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PROHIBITIONS A N D RESTRICTION? O N IMPORTS A N D EXPORTS—continued.
IMPOSTS—continued.
The importation of merchandise packed in hay, straw or other fodders is prohibited
unless accompanied by a certificate from a Veterinary Inspector to a Local Authority
of the country of origin that such hay, straw and other fodder has been grown and stored
and the merchandise packed in a district not infected with Foot and Mouth disease, or
unless accompanied by a certificate from a Veterinary Inspector to a Local Authority
that the packing has been thoroughly disinfected. The importation of merchandise
packed in such hay, straw or other fodder unaccompanied by a certificate as aforesaid
is permitted after the destruction of such packing to the satisfaction of the Chief Officer
of Customs at the port of importation. This prohibition does not affect packing in the
form of manufactured wrappers of straw.
The importation of hay or straw other than hay or straw imported under the pro–
visions of the Order of 13th May, 1926, (see preceding item) is prohibited save under
-permit of the Director of Agriculture (a).
The importation of unroasted ground nuts is absolutely prohibited.
All articles, trinkets or ornaments which resemble coins legally current in Cyprus and
which in the opinion of the Customs may giveriseto deception, prohibited.
WHITE
OB
YBLLOW
PHOSPHOROUS
MATCHES.—Importation
prohibited.
DAGGERS.—Importation prohibited.
.DANGEROUS DRUGS :—
Raw Opium and Coca Leaves.—Importation prohibited except for medicinal and
scientific purposes and under licence in writing of the Director of Health and into
ports approved by the Comptroller of Customs.
Prepared Opium.—Importation prohibited.
Indian Hemp.—Importation prohibited.
The importation of the following is prohibited except for medicinal and scientific
purposes and under licence in writing of the Director of Health :—
(a) medicinal opium; (6) any extract or tincture of Indian hemp ; (c) morphine
and its salts, and diacetyl-morphine (commonly known as diamorphine or heroin)
and the other esters of morphine and their respective salts ; (d) cocaine (including
synthetic cocaine) and ecgonine (-*) and their respective salts, and the esters of
ecgonine and their respective salts; (e) any solution or dilution of morphine or
cocaine or their salts in an inert substance whether liquid or solid, containing
any proportion of morphine or cocaine, and any preparation, admixture, extract
or other substance (not being such a solution or dilution as aforesaid) containing
not less than one-fifth per cent, of morphine or one-tenth per cent, of cocaine or
of ecgonine ; (/) any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing
any proportion of diacetylmorphrne ;. {g) dihydrohydroxycodeinone, dihydroco-
deinone, dihydromorphinone, acetyldihydrocodeinone, dihydromorphine, their
esters and the salts of any of these substances and of their esters, morphine-N-oxide
(commonly known as genomorphine), the morphine-N-oxide derivatives, and
any other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives; (h) thebaine and its
salt3, and (with the exception of methylmorphine, commonly known as codeine,
and ethylmorphine, commonly known as dionin, and their respective salts)
benzylmorphine and the other ethers of morphine and their respective salts;
(*) anypreparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion
of any of the substances mentioned in (g) or (h) above.
POULTRY.—Importation from Egypt, Palestine and Syria prohibited.
SHAVING
BRUSHES.—The
importation of shaving brushes manufactured in or exported
from the Empire of Japan is prohibited.
CINE:V-ATOGRAPH
FILMS
(
2
).—Importation prohibited, except by the written permit,
previously obtained, of the Film Censors.
AUTHOR1TT.
Order of 13th
May,
1926, published in Gaz,
No. 1770 of 21st
May,
)> 1926, and Order of
15th Sept., 1926, pub.
lished in Gnz. No. 1799
of 17th Sept., 1926.
Order in Council No.
2421 of 23rd April,
1931, pab. ia Gaz. No.
2131 of 1st May, 1931.
Order in Council Na
703 of llth May, 1917
Gazette Xo. 1282 of 18th
May. 1917.
* Order in Council No.
507 poWished in Gasettt
, No. 1010, p. 7433.
Law
sec. 5.
The Cyprua Criminal
Code Order in Council
1928, sec. 78.
No. 6 of 1910,
( L a w No. 22 of 1925,
sees. 2 and 16 (1).
| Law No. 22 of 1925,
( sec. 6.
) Law No. 22 of 1925,
) Bee 4.
L a w No. 22 of 1925,
. sees. S and 11 ,as amend-
r ed bv Law No. 53 of
19321, sec. 2.
Order of High Com–
missioner of 27th May,
1922, pub. in GazetU No.
1531 of 9th June, 1922.
Order in Council No.
802 published in Gaz.
"\ No. 1437 of 23rd July,
i. 1920.
Order in Council No.
1485 of 5th Au?.. 1932,
published in Gas. No.
2233 of 12th Aug.. 1932.
;
(a) All grasses, leaves or other vegetable matter used as packing for goods imported from any place other than those
mentioned in page 10 shall be destroyed at the Customs House at the port of arrival, except when such packing is in
the form of manufactured wrappers of dry straw, which m a y be admitted.
(
l
) Ecgonine means lsvo-ecgonine and includes any derivatives of ecgonine from which it m a y be recovered industrially,
I and the percentage in the case of morphine -?h-*ll be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine.
(
!
) The expression " cinematograph films " includes the production of any music, speech or other sound which accom–
panies the projection of a cinematograph film.