Agricultural Produce Export (Coconut Oil) Rules (Cap. 111)

22 CAP. 111.] Agricultural Produce Export {Subsidiary) ~·rof 1948 The Agricultural Produce Export (Coconut Oil) Rules 177 of 1949. 115 of 1954. Title. 1. These Rules may be cited as the Agricultural Produce Export (Coconut Oil) Rules. Interpreta- 2. In these Rules tion. "applicant" means a person making an application under these Rules as in the Form No. 1 in the Schedule; . ., . "consignment" means any number of drums or tins of coconut oil intended to be shipped as a unit in one ship under one bill of Jading and under a specific shipping mark. Place for 3,-(1) The inspection and grading of coconut oil shall be carried out inspection in the Customs Area in the Town of Zanzibar. and grading. Application and.fee for inspection and grading. Times for inspection and grading. (2) At the request of the applicant a consignment may be given a preliminary inspection at a factory or godown, but such inspection shall not exempt the consignment from final inspection and grading in the Customs Area before export. 4~-{1) Every person intending to export coconut· oil shall make application as in Partl of Form No. 1 in the Schedule. The application shall be delivered at the office of the Inspector of Produce (hereinafter in these Rules called "the Inspector") in Zanzibar Town at least twenty-: four hours before the services of the Inspector or an examiner are required, unless in any case the Director shall allow a shorter period than twenty-four hours. (2) The fee for inspection and grading in the Customs Area shall be 3M see:t per sa,U&R of coconut oil packed for export, and sha11 be paid on demand to the Inspector. (3) Where a preliminary inspection is given under paragraph (2) of rule 3~ the fee prescribed by paragraph (2). shall be paid, but, if on such inspection the coconut oil is found fit for export, no further fee shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph ( 4), be payable for inspection and grading in the Customs Area. (4) Where any coconut .oil is required under the provisions of rule 12 or rule 15 to be inspected and graded more than once, the fee prescribed by paragraph (2) shall be paid on each such occasion. 5.-(l) The inspection and grading of coconu.t oil will ordinarily be carried out at the following times (a) on any weekday, not being a Saturday or a public holiday, from 7 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; (b) on a Saturday, not being a public holiday, from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. Agricultural Produce Export [CAP. 111. 23 [Subsidiary] (2) The Inspector may, upon written application being made to him, undertake ~r allow to be undertaken the inspection and grading of coconut oil op Sundays or public holidays, or at times other than those specified in paragraph (1), on payment of such additional fee for overtime, calcula~ed in accordance with the provisions of the Agricultural Produce Export (-Overtime Fees) Rules in respect of the services of every officer or other ~rson employed in or in connection with the inspection and grading, as shall be notified to the applicant by the Inspector. 6. No coconut' oil sh;ill be exported from the Protectorate unless it Require has been inspected and: graded by the Inspector or an examiner and the ~hic~ with Inspector or examiner fa satisfied .that it complies with the following · coconut oil requirements for edible oil or industri,:il oil, as the case may be:- must comply for export. (a) Edible oil, being pure coconut oil which (i) has been filtered or otherwise clarified;. and (ii) does~ not contain rnore than 0.50 % of moisture; and (iii) does not" contain more than 0.02 % of matter insoluble in petrnleum ether; and (iv) is. free from exce ssive rancidity; and (v) does not contain a quantity of fatty acids which, expressed as hturic acid, exceeds 2.9 % (b) Industrial- oil,"being pure coconut oil whic.h does not contain (i) more than 1 ;{ of moisture; nor (in more than 1 % matter insoluble in petroleum ether; nor (iii) a quantity of fatty acids which, expressed as· Jauric acid, excegds 8.90%. 7.-(1) The Inspector shall notify an applicant as in Part II of Form Notification No. l in the Sc5edule of the date on and the time and place at which the· g~~t:r;~r consignment in tespect of which the appHcation was made is to be placed inspection rea 9y for preliminary inspection or final inspection and grading, as the aTid grading. case may be. (2) Every consignment presented for inspection or grading shall be exanli!}ed by individual drums or tins. (3) All drums and tins shall be stacked in such manner as the Inspector or an examiner may require for the purpose of facilitating examination; and if they -are not so stacked and ready for examination at the time and place notified' to the applicant, or not numbered as required by· rule 11, the Ins.pector or examiner may refuse to iaspcct or grade them and may require the applicant to make further application under rule 4. 8. From anj drum or tin pre.scntcd for inspection the Inspector or g;ir:~:~.may an examiner riiay take and retain a sample of the ·contents of such drum or tin riot exceeding four ounces in weight. 9. A consigg.ment shall not be passed a.s fit for export unless every Contents of drum or tin in the consignment satisfies the requirements of rule 6. 1:f~rr~~n comply with rule 6. 24 CAP.111.1 Agricultural Produce Expo.rt [Subsidiary] Removal of consignment for recon ditioning. 10.-(1) Any consignment or part thereof whi~h is found not to. satisfy the requirements of rule 6 may, with the consent of the Inspector, be removed from the Customs Area for the purpose of being recondi tioned, and after the reconditioning a further application shall be made in respect thereof under rule 4. Consignment number. Further inspection and grading in certain cases. Requirement asto packing. Certificate for consign ment passed for export. Power to re.examine oil already graded. (2) No such consignment, if not removed under the provisions of paragraph (1), shaH be passed for export. 11. Every drum or tin of a consignment shall bear, in addition to the usual shipping marks, a numbeir as-signed-to the consignment by the Inspector, and the number sh"'U be stencilled in figures not less than two inches in height on the drum or tin by the applicant before inspection by the· Inspector or an examiner. 12.-(1) If any consignment or part thereof be removed from the place where it received final inspection- under these Rules, for any purpose other than exportation orstorage in a :place approved for that purpose by the Inspector, he may require the consjgnment to be agai11 inspected and graded, and in such case the consignment shaU not be exported until it has been so inspected and graded and· passed as fit for export. · · ·· '(2) If the Inspector has reason{<;> suspect that any coco'nut·oifawaiting shipment after being passed as fit for export has deteriorated or in a:ny way been treated or interfered with so as to alter its quality, the Inspector or any examiner authorised by him may enter· any vessel, shed or store where the coconut oil is and require it to be again inspected and graded, and in such case the coconut oil shall not be exported until it has been so inspected and graded and passed as fit fotexport. · 13. All coconut oil intended i for·.· export shall be pa.eked· in good sound clean drums or tins, not co:tttaining any foreign orsuperfluous matter or the residue of oil from any previous consig11mertt. 14. A certificate in Form No .. 2 in the Schedule will be issued to the applicant on demand in respect O.La consignment which has been inspected and graded and passed as iflf for export. 15. If the Inspector has reason to believe that an examiner has improperly (whether in collusion with the owner or otherwise) graded coconut oil, he may re-examine all or any part thereof, taking all such steps, including the opening of receptacles, as he may deem necessary for that purpose. If upon such re-examination he shall find that the oil or any part thereof has been improperly graded, fie may seize and retain the same or samples thereof for production irr evidence in any proceedings which may be instituted in respect ~h~reof, and may in any event require it to be reconditioned and to be agam inspected and graded; and in such case the oil shall not be exported until it has been so inspected and graded and passed as fit for export.