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gland, intended to be used for injection; sterilized surgical sutures, unless the addressee has obtained an authorization from the competent authority or unless those substances are intended to be used exclusively in veterinary medicine and the receptacles are indelibly exclusively in veterinary medicine and the receptacles are indelibly marked to that effect.
(7) Liquids or substances for analysis or medical examination,
(8) Pathological specimens.
(9) Tea unfit for human consumption; tea exhausted or mixed with other sub- stances, except by special permission of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.
(10) Butter, margarine, margarine cheese, milk, cream, condensed milk, separated or skimmed milk, meat, carcasses and parts of carcasses, lard and other similar greases, and foodstuffs in bad condition, except in execution of the provisions of the laws and regulations relative thereto, and unless packed in hermetically sealed tins bearing a conspicuous mark indicating the nature of their contents.
(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:-
Ables (fir), Larix (larch), Picea (spruce), Pinus (pine), 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 fire- arms. (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.
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