Customs Regulations 1986. - Fiji Revenue & Customs Authority

Customs Act No.11 of 1986 Rev. 2010
Subsidiary Legislation
The Customs
143. Subject to the provisions of the Act, no person shall without the permission of an officer,
board or leave any ship arriving from outside the Fiji Islands until the ship has, with the permission of
such officer, come alongside a wharf or landing place or until after the expiry of such further time as
may be required by the officer for the inspection and examination of the passenger and crew.
Loitering in customs area, etc.
144—(1) If the proper officer considers that any person in any customs area is not engaged in any
legitimate business connected with customs, port or marine matters, he or she may interrogate such person
and if not satisfied with any explanation given by such person concerning his or her presence, he or she may
direct that person to leave the customs area.
(2) If such person fails to comply promptly with any such direction given by the proper officer
he or she shall be guilty of an offence.
Entrances and exits
145. All vehicles, other traffic and pedestrians shall enter and leave any customs area through such
gates and entrances and exits as the proper officer may direct and any person failing to comply with any
such directions shall be guilty of an offence.
Goods delivered from customs areas and from customs control
146.—(1) All goods removed from customs areas or from customs control shall be accompanied by a
permit or pass in such form as the Comptroller may direct. The permit or pass shall be delivered to the proper
officer on duty at places of exit.
(2) A person contravening the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.
Methylated spirits
147. The importer of any spirit purporting to be methylated spirit or in respect of which the rate
of duty charged for methylated spirit is sought to be paid shall, unless he or she produces to the
proper officer on demand a certificate signed by an officer of Customs in the country from which
such spirit has been exported to the effect that such spirit has been denatured to the standard
prescribed, be required at his or her own expense to have such spirit denatured as provided in
regulation 148.
Standard of denaturation
148. The prescribed standard of denaturation in relation to methylated spirits shall be that the spirit
before methylation shall contain not less than 94.09% by volume of alcohol and shall be methylated by
the addition of either—
(a) one-fifth per cent of wood naphtha, one-half per cent of pyridine, and one-half per
cent of either petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha
or shale naphtha;
(b) one-fifth per cent of wood naphtha, one-quarter per cent pyridine, two to twenty per
cent of benzine, and one-quarter per cent of a solution of aniline violet or blue dye;
(c) one-quarter per cent of methanol, one-eighth per cent of pyridine and one per cent of
petroleum; or
(d) 6.6 parts per million (W/W) Bitrex (denatonium benzoate), one- quarter per cent
(W/W) methyl isobutyl ketone and one part per million (W/W) fluorescein.
Standard for motor fuel
149. The prescribed standard of denaturation for use as motor fuel shall be that the spirits before
methylation shall contain not less than 94.09% by volume of alcohol and shall be methylated by the
addition of one-fifth per cent of wood naphtha, one-half per cent pyridine and not less than two per cent of
one of the following—
petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha, shale naphtha,
benzole, sulphuric ether or the like substances.
Persons authorised to denature spirits
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