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Statutory Instrument 137 of 2007.

[CAP.14:05

Control of Goods (Import and Export) (Agriculture) Regulations, 2007

WHEREAS it appears to His Excellency the President necessary and expedient to control the imports and exports from Zimbabwe of certain goods;

NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby notified that His Excellency the President has been pleased, in terms of section 4 of the Control of Goods Act [Chapter14:05], to make the following regulations:

1.These regulations may be cited as the Control of Goods (Import and Export) (Agriculture) Regulations, 2007.

(2)These regulations shall come into operation on the 1st of August, 2007.

2.In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context—

"controlled goods" means any goods specified in the First Schedule or any class of such goods, the import into or the export from Zimbabwe of which is prohibited, restricted or otherwise controlled by an order made under section 3.

3.(1)The Minister of Industry and International Trade may make orders prohibiting, restricting or otherwise controlling the import into or export from Zimbabwe of any goods specified in the First Schedule or any class of such goods.

(2)Without derogation from the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1) an order made under this section may—

(a)prescribe the terms and conditions subject to which controlled goods or any class of such goods may be imported into or exported from Zimbabwe;

(b)provide for empowering such person as may be prescribed by the order—

(i)to issue permits authorising, to such extent as may be prescribed by the order, the import into or export from Zimbabwe of any controlled goods or any class of such goods;

(ii)when issuing a permit in terms of subparagraph (i), to impose any terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the order, subject to which any controlled goods specified in the permit may be imported or exported, as the case may be;

(iii)to revoke any such permit issued by him or her in such circumstances and in such manner as may be prescribed by the order.

4.The regulations specified in the Second Schedule are repealed.

FIRST SCHEDULE (Sections 2 and 4)

SPECIFIED GOODS

Animal oils and fats (lard, tallow and dripping)

Bananas

Barley, barley meal, barley malt

Beans, dried bean meal

Beef, veal

Butter, cream and ghee

Canned meat products

Cashew nut oil

Cattle, whether live or dead

Cement

Cheese

Citrus fruit

Coconut oil

Coffee

Compound products containing flour, meal, residues and other preparations of a kind suitable only as animal feedstuff

Cotton, bleached cotton, cotton lint, cotton seed, cotton yarn, ginned cotton seed and raw cotton or unginned cotton

Eggs of poultry, whether in shell, pulp or dried form

Fish, whether fresh or dried

Fertiliser

Full cream milk powder and skimmed mild powder

Hides and skins

Ice-cream and ice-cream mix

Industrial equipment

Maize meal

Margarine

Meat meal, blood meal and carcass meal

Mealie-meal

Millet in the grain, millet meal and millet malt

Milk, pasteurised, sterilised

Oilseeds, oil cake and oil cake meal

Palm oil

Pigs, whether live or dead

Potatoes

Poultry, whether live or dead

Raw sugar

Refined sugar

Seeds for planting

Sorghum in the grain, sorghum meal and sorghum malt

Soya beans

Stock feeds

Sunflower

Tea

Timber and timber products

Tyres

Vegetable acid oil

Vegetable fats

Vegetable oils

Wheat flour

Wheat in the grain, wheat bran and wheat pollard

SECOND SCHEDULE (Section 4)

REPEALS

Title Statutory
Instrument

Control of Goods (Import and Export) (Agriculture)
Regulations, 1965 ...... 656 of 1965

Control of Goods (Import and Export) (Agriculture)
(Amendment) Regulations, 1965 (No. 1) ...... 737A of 1965

Control of Goods (Import and Export) (Agriculture)
(Amendment) Regulations, 1969 (No. 2) ...... 537 of 1969

Control of Goods (Import and Export) (Agriculture)
(Amendment) Regulations, 1977 (No. 3) ...... 885 of 1977

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