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Agricultural Pests Act, 1983 (Act No. 36 of 1983)

3. Importation of controlled goods

 

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (4), (5) and (6) no person shall import into the Republic—
(b) anything determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette,

except on the authority of a permit.

 

 

(2) A person importing controlled goods into the Republic on the authority of a permit
(a) shall do so only through a prescribed port of entry , except where an executive officer has determined some other place;
(b) shall present them at that place to the executive officer concerned for such inspection as he deems necessary;
(c) shall not remove them from that place before the executive officer concerned has consented in writing thereto

[Section 3(2) substituted by section 3 of Act No. 9 of 1992]

 

(3) An executive officer may, on application by a person importing controlled goods and against payment of the prescribed fees—
(a) carry out an inspection contemplated in subsection (2)(b) at a time other than during the official office hours of such executive officer; or
(b) perform any other function in respect of such controlled goods

[Section 3(3) substituted by section 3 of Act No. 9 of 1992]

 

(4) The Minister may by notice in the Gazette determine that any controlled goods or class of controlled goods be imported into the Republic without a permit, subject to conditions set out in that notice.

 

(5) The Minister may import into the Republic exotic animals of a specified kind, or pathogens or insects of a kind not indigenous to the Republic, if he is of the opinion that the presence thereof in the Republic—
(a) is desirable in order to combat the occurrence of plants, pathogens, insects or exotic animals of a specified kind in the Republic;
(b) is otherwise in the interest of a specified branch of agriculture.

 

(6) The Minister may by notice in the Gazette determine controlled goods or a class of controlled goods in respect of which a permit for their importation into the Republic may not be issued.