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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. 189 Chinese 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 192 or 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. 193 TABLE OF PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ~ OUTWARDS 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. 194

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