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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 8 of the Act

Part 6: Reporting requirements for trucks entering or leaving Republic

8.33 Reporting of departure of trucks, crew and cargo

 

(1) The on-board operator of a truck due to leave the Republic must at the land border-post where the truck will leave the Republic report to the Controller at that land border-post in accordance with subrule (2)—
(a) the departure of the truck and crew; and
(b) all cargo on board the truck.

 

(2) The on-board operator must on arrival of the truck at the land border-post report to a customs officer in accordance with the operational procedures applied at the border-post and provide to the officer, for purposes of electronic recording of the arrival of the truck, crew and cargo, all the information as the officer may require, to the extent that the required information has not already been submitted in an advance truck, crew and cargo departure notice referred to in rule 8.31 or an amended advance truck, crew and cargo departure notice referred to in rule 8.48. Such information may include, as the customs officer may require—
(a) General mandatory reporting information;
(b) on-board operator details;
(c) the date and time of arrival of the truck at that land border-post;
(d) crew details in respect of each crew member on board the truck destined for a foreign destination;
(e) the transport name in relation to the truck; and
(f) road manifest information, in the case of an own goods carrier referred to in rule 8.32(3).

 

(3) The on-board operator must, after the information referred to in subrule (1) has been electronically recorded by the customs officer, confirm the correctness of the information in a manner required by the officer.

 

(4) This rule applies to all trucks whether or not operated by carriers.