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1 2002 Customs & Excise Act LAWS OF KENYA The Customs and Excise Act CHAPTER 472 First Booklet This booklet contains the Act and subsidiary legislation made there under, or a note thereof, but excludes the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Schedules to the Act which set out the rates of import duty, suspended duty, export duty and excise duty and, in the case of the Third Schedule, exemptions from duty. These Schedules are published in a separate booklet. (Revised Edition 2000 (1996)) *See section 235 (1) of the 1980 edition of this chapter. The provisions there set out have not been reproduced in this edition as they have become spent.

2 The Acts referred to are the Customs Tariff Act (Cap. 472 (1972)), the Excise Tariff Act (Cap. 474 (1967)), the Customs Dumping and Subsidies) Act (Cap. 473 (1962)), the Customs and Excise Department Act, 1977 (No. 8 of 1977) the Export Duty Act, 1977 (No. 10 of 1977), the Local Industries (Refund of Customs Duties) Act (Cap. 481 (1967)) and s. 11 of the Treaty for East African Co-operation Act (Cap. 4). 2002 Customs & Excise Act CHAPTER 472 THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACT ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Section PART I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title. 2. lnterpretation. PART II ADMINISTRATION 3. Provisions relating to staff. 4. Customs seal and flag.

3 5. Officer to have powers of police officer. 6. Hours of attendance. 7. Offences by or in relation to officers. 8. Disclosure and exchange of information. 9. Appointment and fixing of limits of ports, customs areas, etc. 10. Accommodation on wharves. 11. Offences in respect of customs areas, etc. 12. Customs control of goods. 13. Liability for loss, etc., through negligence of officer. PART III IMPORTATION Prohibited and restricted imports 14. Prohibited and restricted goods. 15. Power to prohibit, etc., imports. 16. Exemption of goods in transit, etc. 17. Procedure on arrival. 18. Place of mooring, etc. 19. Restriction on boarding vessels before proper officer.

4 20. Report of aircraft and vessels. 21. Master to answer questions, etc. 22. Goods in transit shed, etc., deemed in aircraft or vessel. 23. Goods reported to be unloaded. 24. Master of wreck, etc., to report. 2002 Customs & Excise Act 25. Arrival overland. Unloading, Removal, Entry, Examination and Delivery of Cargo 26. Unloading, etc. 27. Entry of cargo. 28. Surplus stores may be entered. 29. Provisions relating to mail, personal baggage, etc. 30. Entry in absence of documents. 31. Provisions relating to goods liable to ad valorem duty. 32. Delivery from customs area in special circumstances. 33. Re-packing, etc., in customs area, etc.

5 Provisions Relating to Customs Warehouse 34. Goods deposited in a customs warehouse may be sold, etc. 35. Goods deemed to be in a customs warehouse. PART IV WAREHOUSING OF GOODS Provisions Relating to Bonded Warehouses 36. Dutiable goods may be warehoused. 37. Procedure on warehousing. 38. Removal to warehouse of goods entered therefor. 39. Entry of warehoused goods. 40. Operations in a warehouse. 41. Re-gauging and re-valuation. 42. Delivery from warehouse in special circumstances. 43. Removal to another warehouse or bonded factory. 44. Warehoused goods may be delivered as stores. 45. Abandonment, etc., of warehoused goods. 46. Period of warehousing of goods.

6 47. Examination of warehoused goods on delivery. 48. Access to warehouse. 49. Removal of goods after entry for home use, etc. 50. Penalty for unlawfully taking, etc., warehoused goods. 51. Commissioner may license warehouses. 52. Procedure on revocation or expiry of licence. 53. Warehouse keeper to provide facilities. 54. Stowage and storage of goods in bonded warehouse. 55. Removal of goods from private to general warehouse. 56. Warehouse keeper to produce goods deposited. 2002 Customs & Excise Act Provisions Relating to Government Warehouses 57. Goods in Government warehouse liable to rent, etc. 58. Removal, etc., of goods in Government warehouse.

7 PART IV A- PROVISIONS RELATING TO MANUFACTURE UNDER BOND 58A. Licensing of bonded factories. 58B. Entry of Premises as bonded factories. 58C. Revocation of Licence, etc. 58D. Entry of Plant Machinery, etc. for expectation or for home use. 58E. Manufacturer to provide facilities. 58F. Receipt and storage of raw materials and manufactured goods. 58G. Provisions relating to stock registers. 58H. Manner of dealing with deficiencies and excesses in stock rooms. 58R. Importation of equipment, machinery, raw materials etc. 58J. Provisions relating to goods in bonded factory. 58K. Delivery from bonded factory in special circumstances. 5BL. Goods from bonded factory may be entered for home use.

8 PART V EXPORTATION 59. Prohibited and restricted goods. 60. Power to prohibit, etc., exports. 61. Exemption of good in transit, etc. 62. Entry outwards of aircraft or vessel. 63. Entry of cargo for export. 64. Loading, etc. 65. Provisions relating to personal baggage, etc. 66. Goods for export not to be discharged in Kenya. 67. Provisions relating to export of certain goods. 68. Stores for aircraft and vessels. 69. Short-shipment of non-bonded goods. 70. Export goods stored at risk of owner. 71. Goods liable to export duty. Transit and Transhipment Goods 72. Goods in transit or for transhipment. 2002 Customs & Excise Act PART VI--IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION BY POST 73.

9 Application of Act to postal articles. 74. Time of entry of postal articles. PART VII-- DEPARTURE AND CLEARANCE OF AIRCRAFT, VESSELS, AND DEPARTURE OVERLAND Departure and Clearance of Aircraft and Vessels 75. Clearance required for departure to foreign port. 76. Grant of clearance. 77. Clearance to be produced. 78. Deficiency or surplus in cage or stores. 79. Aircraft or vessels to bring to at boarding station. Departure Overland 80. Departure overland. PART VII-- CARRIAGE OF GOODS COASTWISE 81. Meaning of carriage coastwise. 82. Carriage coastwise in aircraft or vessel from foreign port. 83. Loading, etc., of coastwise cargo. 84. Transire required for departure coastwise.

10 85. Transire to be delivered on arrival. 86. Power of Commissioner to vary procedure. 87. Entry outwards of aircraft, etc., carrying goods coastwise. 88. Coasting vessel, etc., not to deviate from voyage. 89. Examination of coasting aircraft, coasting vessel and goods. PART IX--MANUFACTURE OF EXCISABLE GOODS 90. Licence required to manufacture excisable goods. 91. Application for and grant of licence. 92. Transfer of licence. 93. Power to revoke, etc., licence. 94. Effect of revocation, etc., of licence. 95. Provision of facilities for excise control. 96. License to keep books, etc. 2002 Customs & Excise Act Entry of Premises and Plants 97.