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[28th October, 2022] Customs Management Act 1088 REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES SUPPLEMENT TO OFFICIAL GAZETTE SI S.I. 113 of 2022 CUSTOMS MANGEMENT ACT, 2011 (Act 22 of 2011) Customs Management (Tariff and Classification of Goods) Regulations, 2022 In the exercise of powers conferred by section 270 of the Customs Management Act 2011 the Minister of Finance, National Planning and Trade hereby makes the following Regulations — Citation and commencement 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Customs Management (Tariff and Classification of Goods) Regulations, 2022 and shall come into operation on 1st November, 2022. Tariff and classification of goods 2.(1) The tariff and classification of goods including general rules for the interpretation are specified in Schedule I.

[28th October, 2022] Customs Management Act 1340 REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES SUPPLEMENT TO OFFICIAL GAZETTE SI Chapter 30 Pharmaceutical Products Notes. 1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Foods or beverages (such as dietetic, diabetic or fortified foods, food supplements, tonic beverages and mineral waters), other than nutritional preparations for intravenous administration (Section IV); (b) Products, such as tablets, chewing gum or patches (transdermal systems), containing nicotine and intended to assist tobacco use cessation (heading 24.04); (c) Plasters specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading 25.20); (d) Aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils, suitable for medicinal uses (heading 33.01); (e) Preparations of headings 33.03 to 33.07, even if they have therapeutic or prophylactic properties; (f) Soap or other products of heading 34.01 containing added medicaments; (g) Preparations with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading 34.07); (h) Blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses (heading 35.02); or (ij) Diagnostic reagents of heading 38.22.

4.- Heading 30.06 applies only to the following, which are to be classified in that heading and in no other heading of the nomenclature : (a) Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure; (b) Sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; (c) Sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics; sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether ornot absorbable; (d) Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations and diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient, being unmixed products put up in measured doses or products consisting of two or more ingredients which have been mixed together for such uses; (e) Placebos and blinded (or double-blinded) clinical trial kits for use in recognised clinical trials, put up in measured doses, even if they might contain active medicaments. (f) Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements; (g) First-aid boxes and kits; (h) Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of heading 29.37 or onspermicides; (ij) Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments; (k) Waste pharmaceuticals, that is, pharmaceutical products which are unfit for their original intended purpose due to, for example, expiry of shelf life; and (l) Appliances identifiable for ostomy use, that is, colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy pouches cut to shape and their adhesive wafers or faceplates.

Heading HS Code Description of goods 3006.1000 - Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure; sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics; sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or Not absorbable 3006.3000 - Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations; diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient 3006.4000 - Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements 3006.5000 - First-aid boxes and kits 3006.6000 - Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of heading 29.37 or on spermicides 3006.7000 - Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments - Other : 3006.9100 - - Appliances identifiable for ostomy use 3006.9200 - - Waste pharmaceuticals 3006.9300 - - Placebos and blinded (or double- blinded) clinical trial kits for recognised clinical trial, put up in measured doses

[28th October, 2022] Customs Management Act 1903 REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES SUPPLEMENT TO OFFICIAL GAZETTE SI MADE this 27th day of October, 2022. NAADIR HASSAN MINISTER OF FINANCE, NATIONAL PLANNING AND TRADE