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Pre-Shipment Inspection of Exports Act, 1996 🇳🇬

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Pre-Shipment Inspection of Exports Act, 1996

  • Commenced on 19 April 1996
  • [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2002.]
An Act to make provision for the inspection of goods in Nigeria prior to their shipment to a place outside Nigeria.

Part I – Pre-shipment inspection of exports, etc.

1. Pre-shipment inspection of goods

(1)As from the commencement of this Act, no goods to which this Act applies shall be exported from Nigeria unless an inspecting agent appointed pursuant to section 12 of this Act has issued in respect of the goods a Clean Certificate of Inspection to the overseas buyers of the goods.
(2)For the avoidance of doubt, no agency or department of any government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall as from the commencement of this Act issue Clean Certificate of Findings in respect of the goods to which this Act applies except the inspecting agent appointed pursuant to section 12 of this Act.
(3)Any person intending to export any goods to which this Act applies shall, …

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