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Article 2 Personal use of travellers or their families

United Kingdom

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1.

Seal products for the personal use of travellers or their families may only be imported where any of the following requirements is fulfilled:

(a)

the seal products are either worn by the travellers, or carried or contained in their personal luggage;

(b)

the seal products are contained in the personal property of a natural person transferring his normal place of residence from a third country to the F1United Kingdom;

(c)

the seal products are acquired on site in a third country by travellers and imported by those travellers at a later date, provided that, upon arrival in the F2United Kingdom, those travellers present to the customs authorities F3... the following documents:

  1. (i)

    a written notification of import;

  2. (ii)

    a supporting document giving evidence that the products were acquired in the third country concerned.

2.

For the purposes of paragraph 1(c), the written notification and the supporting document shall be endorsed by the customs authorities and returned to the travellers. On import, the notification and the supporting document shall be presented to the customs authorities together with the customs declaration for the products concerned.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 2(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seal Products (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1034), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Words in Art. 2(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seal Products (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1034), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)(ii)(aa); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Words in Art. 2(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Seal Products (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1034), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)(ii)(bb); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)