Overseas Post
121
GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND
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(11) Alimentary products and beverages to which any preservative or other sub- stance has been added, unless they comply with the provisions of the laws and regulations relating thereto.
For the protection of animals or plants against extermination or diseases; Skins, horns, hoofs, or any other parts of cattle or other animals whose transmission may be prohibited in order to prevent the propagation of any contagious disease.
Certain plants and plant products are prohibited from importation or are admitted under restrictions. Trees, shrubs and plants of the followings:-
Abies (fir), Larix (larch), Picea (spruce), Pinus (pinc), Pseudotsuga (Douglas spruce), Sequoia (redwood), Thuja (Thuya), Tsuga (Hemlock) and Ulmus (elm) and the roots, layers, cuttings or other parts of these trees, shrubs, or plants as well as plants and parts of plants, not including the seeds, or sugar beet (beta vulgaris L), except when imported for instructional, scientific and similar purposes, under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Arms, munitions, etc.:
(1) Firearms, deadly weapons, and parts thereof, except air guns and unrifled hunting guns having barrels not less than 20 inches long and parts thereof; these exceptions, however, do not apply to articles for Northern Ireland. (2) Arms of all kinds intended or adapted for throwing liquids, gas or other
injurious substances, and parts thereof.
(3) Accessories intended or adaptable for reducing the sound or flash from firearms. (Note: The articles mentioned in the above three paragraphs are exceptionally admitted subject to permission from the competent British Authority).
(4) Munitions containing liquids, gas or other harmful substances, or those
intended or adapted to contain them; also parts of such munitions.
(5) Non-explosive components of artillery fuses.
For reasons such as State monopolies, etc.:
(1) False or counterfeit coin and imitation coin,
(2) Silver coin of Great Britain which does not meet with the legal standard of
weight or fineness.
For other reasons:
(1) Articles which bear or are marked with stamps, names, or other indications leading one to believe that they are guaranteed or sanctioned by a department of British Government.
(2) Articles bearing a counterfeit mark or a false trade description and articles of foreign manufacture bearing a name or mark of any manufacturer or merchant in Great Britain or Northern Ireland unless the name of the country in which the article has been made is also indicated.
(3) Gold or silver ware which, when assayed, has not the legal allotage. (4) Goods made in foreign prisons, with the exception of goods imported for a non-commercial purpose or goods of a kind not manufactured in Great Britain,
(5) Time-pieces, clocks, and watches or other articles of metal bearing a mark or stamp representing or imitating a mark or stamp of British legal assay, or any mark or indication leading one to believe that such articles were made in Great Britain.
(6) Synthetic organic dyes, colours, and colouring matters prohibited by the Dyestuffs Import Regulation Act of 1920, may be imported by parcel post if accompanied by a permit issued by the British Board of Trade.
As an exception, bona fide trade samples having no commercial value may be imported without a permit from the British Board of Trade. Parcels con- taining such samples must be addressed directly to the importer,
(7) Books, painting, etc., which are protected by the copyright law in Great
Britain.
(8) Liquid celluloid, solid celluloid called "unseasoned celluloid," that is to say, celluloid which has not been freed from all volatile solvent and which is designated at times under the name of "Xylonite cake".