Section 19: Entry for goods
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19. Entry for goods
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, any goods entering or
leaving a freeport zone pursuant to section 16 (1) or 17 shall be entered in
the same manner as goods are imported or exported under customs laws and
shall, unless otherwise authorised, be made through the TradeNet under the
Customs (Use of Computer) Regulations 1997 and any payment of duties
and taxes shall be made electronically.
(2) Notwithstanding regulations 17 and 18 of the Customs (Use of Computer) Regulations 1997, where an electronic declaration is made pursuant to
subsection (1), the TradeNet user—
(a) shall not submit to Customs—
(i) a hard copy of the electronic declaration in respect of the
goods; and
(ii) the specified documents in respect of those goods; but
(b) shall keep at his business premises a hard copy of the electronic
declaration in a form approved by the Director-General together
with the documents referred to in paragraph (a) (ii) and shall
make them available for examination on demand by a proper officer of Customs.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), “electronic declaration” and
“specified documents” have the same meaning as in the regulations referred
to in subsection (1).
[S. 19 amended by s. 14 (c) of Act 15 of 2006 w.e.f. 1 July 2006.]