Pre-Shipment Inspection of Imports Act, 1996 🇳🇬

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Pre-Shipment Inspection of Imports Act, 1996

Commenced on 19 April 1996
[This is the version of this document at 31 December 2002.]

An Act to provide for pre-shipment inspection of imports and for matters connected therewith.

Part I – Pre-shipment inspection of imports

1. All imported goods liable to mandatory pre-shipment inspection

(1)As from the commencement of this Act, no goods to which this Act applies--

(a)whether containerised or not and irrespective of value and personal effects (excluding such personal effects which are accompanied and subject to 100 per cent inspection at destination); and

(b)whether re-exported into Nigeria from any neighbouring country,

shall be imported into Nigeria unless accompanied by a Clean Report of Findings and an Import Duty Report issued in respect of such goods to the overseas sellers of the goods by the inspecting agent referred to in section 4 of this Act.

(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, any person intending to import any goods t…

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