SCHEDULE B
TABLE OF PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
INWARDS
Any article bearing the imprint, affixation or inscription of a
religious picture, religious name or emblem or title, whether
as a trade mark or otherwise, if, in the opinion of the Principal
Collector of Customs, such imprint, affixation or inscription
on such article is derogatory to any religious teacher or his
teachings or is likely to wound the religious susceptibilities
of the followers of the religion with which such picture,
name, emblem, or title is associated.
Any book or pamphlet which in the opinion of the Principal
Collector of Customs contains disparaging and insulting
references to any religious teacher or his teachings.
Any newspaper, pamphlet, leaflet, book or picture containing
matter calculated to lead to acts made punishable under
section 120 of the Penal Code.
Appliances (including pistols, pistol-pens, pistol-pencils
hand grenades, cartridges, &c. ) for discharging gas, unless
imported by or on behalf of Government.
Beedies and beedy tobacco except such as are imported under
the authority of a licence issued by the Principal Collector
of Customs and only through such ports and subject to such
conditions as he may specify by notification published in the
Gazette.
Books wherein the copyright shall be first subsisting, first
composed, or written or printed in the United Kingdom,
and printed or reprinted in any other country, and of which
notice that copyright subsists shall have been given by the
proprietor to the Commissioners of Customs, London.
189Chinese crackers which certain explosives of such
composition or in such quantity, as in the opinion of the
Collector of Customs renders them dangerous.
Coin, namely false money or counterfeit sterling coin of the
realm, or any money purporting to be such, not being of the
established standard in weight or fineness.
Cotton, silk or other woven goods impressed with designs
and imitations of currency notes, promissory notes, or
stock notes of the Government of Ceylon or of any other
Government.
Dummy firearms, toy pistols. or other articles which in the
opinion of the Principal Collector of Customs are capable of
being easily converted into lethal weapons.
Eggs, unless they are stamped indelibly with the name of the
country of origin.
Fish, grain, and other articles in a damaged, stinking, or
offensive condition, unfit for food and legitimate use, or
likely to breed sickness or any contagious disorders.
Indecent or obscene prints, paintings, books, cards,
lithographs, photographs, engravings or any other indecent
or obscene articles.
Japanese shaving brushes.
Lottery proposals, circulars, or tickets.
Mattur dhal (Lathyrus Sutivus) otherwise known as Kesari
dhal.
Meat (whether fresh or frozen) of the following description,
being meat derived from any warm-blooded animal if such
meat is imported for human consumption:-
190(a) meat which consists of offal, scraps, trimmings and
other pieces (whether with or without bone) of such
shape or in such condition as to afford insufficient
means of identification with a definite part ofa carcase;
(b) meat comprising the wall of the thorax or abdomen
from which there has been detached any part of the
pleura or (except in the case of meat derived from a
pig) the peritoneum, other than a part necessarily
removed in preparing the meat;
(c) Meat from which a lymphatic gland (except a gland
necessarily removed in preparing the meat) has been
taken out; and
(d) Meat comprising the head of an animal from which
the submaxillary gland has been removed.
Meat or a meat product of the following description being
meat or a meat product derived from any warm-blooded
animal and imported for human consumption, unless such
meat or meat product is accompanied by a certificate or other
document issued by a competent authority in the country of
origin, being a certificate or document which, in the opinion
of the Principal Collector of Customs, can be treated as
containing a sufficient warrant that the meat or meat product
to which such certificate or document relates is fit for human
consumption:-
(a) meat or any meat product. packed in air-tight
containers;
(b) cooked or cured or dried meat;
(c) intestines and other parts prepared in the form of
sausage;
191(d) _ rendered animal fats other than margarine; and
(e) pies, sausages or other prepared or manufactured
article of food containing meat of any description,
other than fat.
Milk condensed which contains less than 31 per centum of
milk solids (including less than 9 per centum of milk fat).
Parts of articles, viz., Any distinct or separate part of any
article not accompanied by the other part or all the other
parts of such articles, so as to be complete or perfect, if such
articles be subject to duty according to the value thereof.
Sword-sticks or other articles which, in the opinion of the
Principal Collector of Customs are so designed or constructed
as to disguise the fact that they are capable of being used or
adapted for use as knives or swords or other instruments for
cutting or stabbing.
The following goods, when they are consigned to any person
other than a registered medical practitioner, a wholesale or
retail chemist, or a person who has obtained the written
sanction required for the purposes of the proviso to section 3
of the Venereal Diseases Ordinance:-
(a) any medicines or medicaments for the prevention cure
or relief of any venereal disease:
(b) Any advertisement, notice, handbill or circular
recommending to the public any such medicine or
medicament;
(c) Any label of any description designed or adaptable
for use or capable of being used on any box, bottle,
phial or other receptacle or container for the purpose
of conveying the information that any such medicine
192or medicament is coniained therein;
(d) any box, bottle, phial or other receptacle or container
which is intended for use in connexion with the sale
or distribution of any such medicine or medicament
and which has any word, figure, mark, design or other
indication affixed thereto or embossed or engraved
thereon, for the purpose of conveying the information
that at the time of such sale or distribution, any such
medicine or medicament is contained therein.
Walking-stick guns, and every gun of any description which
is so designed or constructed as to disguise the fact that it is
a gun.
Weapons, armaments, ancillary equipment ammunition,
explosives, vehicles and equipment capable of being used by
the armed forces, except by licence form the Minister.
Any article exported from Ceylon and refused admittance by
the authorities at the port to which it was exported except by
permission of the Collector of Customs.
Articles the importation of which is prohibited by any
enactment or any legal order now in force or hereafter
to be enacted, or any tules, regulations, notifications,
proclamations, or orders made or issued thereunder.
Articlesthe importation of whichisrestricted by any enactment
or any legal order now in force or hereafter to be enacted, or
any rules, regulations, notifications, proclamations, or orders
made or issued thereunder except in accordance with such
enactment, rules, regulations, notifications, proclamations,
or order.
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Cinchona bark in any form, including cinchona bark powder
or any other part of the cinchona tree.
No tea shall be exported which is declared by the Principal
Collector of Customs or by any officer authorized by him
to be, in the opinion of the officer making such declaration,
unfit for export as being adulterated and therefore likely to
damage the reputation of Ceylon tea in foreign markets:
Provided that this prohibition shall not operate against any
tea on account of its cheapness or inferiority in quality. The
exportation of tea shall be subject to the condition that the
Principal Collector of Customs or any officer authorized by
him may take samples thereof for the purpose of examination.
Wild cinnamon that is to say, any cinnamon other than that
cultivated in plantations for commercial purposes.*
+ Wild cinnamon may be exported or taken out of Ceylon
under a licence issued by the Director of Commerce and in
accordance with such conditions as may be attached by him
to such licence - See Gazette No 8,443 of 31st March 1939
Articles the exportation of which is prohibited by any
enactment or any legal order now in force or hereafter
to be enacted, or any rules, regulations, notifications,
proclamations, or orders made or issued thereunder.
Articles the exportation of whichis restricted by any enactment
or any legal order now in force or hereafter to be enacted, or
any rules, regulations, notifications, proclamations, or orders
made or issued thereunder, except in accordance with such
enactment, rules, regulations, notifications, proclamations,
or orders.
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