Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No. 91 of 1964)

Customs and Excise Rules

Chapter III : Importation, Exportation and Transit and Coastwise Carriage of Goods

Rules for Section 15 of the Act

Part 3: Special requirements for submission of traveller declarations for travellers using rail or intending to use non-designated places

15.10 Requirements relating to submission of traveller declarations for persons intending to enter or leave the Republic at non-designated places

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(a)	A traveller intending to enter or leave the Republic at a non-designated place must, despite any other provision in these rules—

(i)	prior to travelling to that non-designated place submit a traveller declaration through SATMS, subject to paragraph (c), applying for the use of that non-designated place by indicating in terms of rule 15.04(b)(ix)—

(aa)	that he or she wishes to use the relevant non-designated place; and

(bb)	the place of entry or exit nearest to that non-designated place; and

(ii)	in accordance with instructions received from SARS after submission of the declaration, proceed—

(aa)	to the relevant non-designated place, in the case where SARS permitted the use of the non-designated place and indicated that the traveller may proceed to that place; or

(bb)	to the place of entry or exit nearest to that non-designated place, in the case where SARS did not permit the use of the non-designated place and instructed the traveller to proceed to the relevant place of entry or exit.

(b)	A traveller permitted to use a non-designated place as contemplated in paragraph (a)(ii)(aa) must follow any instructions by an officer under delegation in terms of rule 15.03.

(c)

A traveller referred to in paragraph (a) must in the case of a SARS systems failure or where the traveller cannot submit the traveller declaration electronically due to other reasonable grounds, submit the declaration at the place of entry nearest to the non-designated place where that traveller intended entering or leaving the Republic in paper format on form TD-01, together with a traveller goods declaration on form TGD1, if that traveller had disclosed any goods contemplated in rule 15.04(c) or (d).