Acts Online
GT Shield

Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No. 91 of 1964)

Customs and Excise Rules

Schedule to the Rules

Places of Entry, Warehousing Places, Places for particular and Limited Purposes, etc

Places for particular and limited purposes (Section 6(1)(d) of the Act)

 

200.03 Places for particular and limited purposes

(Section 6(1)(d) of the Act)

 

(a) Beit Bridge

Cape Town International Airport

OR Tambo International Airport

Lebombo

Kosi Bay

through which goods may be imported or exported, through which persons may enter or leave the Republic and where goods may be entered for customs and excise purposes.

[Rule 200.03(a) of Schedule to the Rules substituted by section 1(b) of Notice No. R. 1981, GG46165, dated 1 April 2022]

 

(b) Mpondweni

Pafuri

through which persons may enter or leave the Republic.

[Rule 200.03(b) of Schedule to the Rules substituted by section 1(b) of Notice No. R. 1981, GG46165, dated 1 April 2022]

 

(c) Bloemfontein

Germiston

Johannesburg

Kimberley

Maputo

Pietermaritzburg

Port Elizabeth Airport

Pretoria

being places of entry where goods may be entered for customs and excise purposes

 

(d) Oudtshoorn

Paarl

Robertson

Stellenbosch

Upington

Vredendal

Worcester

where excisable goods, imported goods ex a customs and excise warehouse and goods imported by rail may be entered for customs and excise puposes

 

(e) Durban – Mooring Buoy off Reunion Rocks

Mossel Bay

where foreign-going ships may call for discharging imported and locally produced bulk petroleum products through the submarine pipe line.

 

(f) Alexander Bay

Doring Bay

Hondeklip Bay

Hottentot Bay

Hout Bay

Lamberts Bay

Port Nolloth

Port St. Johns

Simonstown

St. Helena Bay

Stompneus Bay

 

(g) Beit Bridge

Bloemfontein

Cape Town

Cape Town International Airport

Durban

King Shaka International Airport

East London

Germiston

Johannesburg

Kosi Bay

OR Tambo International Airport

Kimberley

Lanseria International Airport

Lebombo

Mossel Bay

Paarl

Pietermaritzburg

Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth International Airport

Port of Ngqura

Pretoria

Richards Bay

Upington

where goods contemplated in section 49 may be imported or exported and where such goods may be entered for customs and excise purposes.”

[Rule 200.03(g) of Schedule to the Rules substituted by section 1(c) of Notice No. R. 1981, GG46165, dated 1 April 2022]

 

(h) Bloemfontein

Germiston

Johannesburg

Kimberley

Paarl

Pietermaritzburg

Pretoria

Richards Bay

Upington

through which goods contemplated in section 49 may be entered for customs and excise purposes

 

(ij) Johannesburg

where a continuous transmission commodity imported into or exported from the Republic may be entered as contemplated in rule 38.16.

 

(k) Johannesburg

Kimberley

Kopfontein

OR Tambo International Airport

Oshoek

Van Rooyens Hek

Vioolsdrift

where unpolished diamonds may be entered for import from or export to a BLNS country (the Republic of Botswana, the Kingdom of Lesotho, the Republic of Namibia or the Kingdom of Swaziland).

 

(l) Bloemfontein

Cape Town

Durban

East London

Germiston

Johannesburg

Mossel Bay

Port Elizabeth

Pretoria

for the administration of the environmental levy on electricity as contemplated in the rules numbers 54FA

 

Note The following conditions shall apply in respect of the places specified in paragraph (f)—
1. No goods shall be landed at any of the said places unless such goods—
(a) were produced or manufactured in the Republic with the exception of excisable goods on which duty has not been paid, or, if they are imported goods, have previously been duly entered at an appointed place of entry; and
(b) have been conveyed thereto by a ship engaged solely in the coasting trade.
2. No goods shall be exported from any of the said places in any ship which has on board goods liable to customs duty or excise duty except under the supervision of a customs and excise officer. The expense in connection with the attendance of the said officer, when such attendance is required at any of the said places shall be guaranteed to the Controller by the master or agent of the ship.
3. All goods loaded for export at any of the said places shall previously have been entered for export, and the ship in which the goods are loaded shall have obtained clearance at such place of entry as may be required by the Controller.
4. In the case of Alexander Bay, the following further condition shall apply:

No goods shall be landed at Alexander Bay unless they are intended for use or consumption within the area controlled by Alexkor Limited.

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2) and (3), furnace and diesel oil imported in bulk may be landed at Simonstown direct ex ship for storage in an approved warehouse for supply to ships, provided all customs and excise requirements in respect of entry inwards and outwards of the ships and the warehousing and clearance of such oil shall first have been complied with at Cape Town.
6. In the case of Port Nolloth, the following further conditions shall apply:
(a) Subject to paragraph (b), goods for use on or removal from a ship registered, chartered or contracted in the Republic of Namibia which is solely engaged in activities related to marine diamond mining and exploration and operates above the continental shelf of the Republic of Namibia, may be loaded or landed at Port Nolloth;
(b) No goods referred to in subparagraph (a) shall be loaded or landed at Port Nolloth unless the clearance of such goods have first been effected at Cape Town;
(c) The master of any ship engaged in provisioning or servicing ships solely engaged in marine diamond mining activities while such ships are at sea shall keep a log book in which the master shall record:
(i) the movement or position of his or her ship from day to day;
(ii) the name of any place called at, whether any landing was effected or not, and the particulars of any goods landed at such a place;
(iii) the name of any ship contemplated in subparagraph (a) to which goods were supplied or from which good were removed.