Page 159 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

POST OFFICE GUIDE 159

Overseas Post: Foreign Countries, conld.
GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, contd.
Butter, margarine, margarine cheese, milk, cream, condensed, separated or skim­
med milk, meat and meat products (not fully cooked) c.g. salami sausage, ham,
bacon, carcasses or part of carcasses, lard and other similar fats and unsound
food, except in accordance with the relative laws and regulations and unless
packed in hermetically scaled tins bearing a conspicuous mark indicating the
nature of their contents;
Living animals, except bees, leeches and silkworms enclosed in well constructed
boxes, skins, horns, hoofs or any other parts of cattle or other animals of which
the transmission may be prohibited in order to prevent the propagation of any
contagious disease;
Potatoes and potato haulms, leaves and stalks;
Trees and shrubs and plants of the following genera: Ulmus (elm), Abies,
(lit ). Larix (larch), Picca (Spruce), Pinus (pine), Pseudotsuga (Douglas) (spruce).
Sequoia (redwood), Thuja (thuya) and Tsuga (hemlock) and the roots, layers,
cuttings and other parts of those trees, shrubs and plants as well as plants and
parts of plants excluding beetroot and chrysanthemums except that in each case
they are imported for scientific or similar instruction and under a licence from the
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries;
All other living plants and parts thereof (except seeds); potatoes, raw vege­
tables (including tomatoes, aubergines and salads) but excluding cucumber and
mushroom grown in any country, and cider apples grown in any country in
Europe, if imported between the 1st April and 15th October, raw apples grown
in the United States of America unless accompanied by a phyto-sanitary certifi­
cate signed by a competent authority in the country of origin and approved by
the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The certificate should
be enclosed in an envelope marked “For the attention of H.M. Customs” and
securely attached to the outside of the parcel.
Firearms and other weapons and parts thereof (except smooth bore sporting
guns having barrels more than 24 inches in length measured from the muzzle
to the point at which the charge is exploded on firing, air rifles and air carbines
and parts thereof), weapons of descriptions designed or adapted for the dis­
charge of any noxious liquid, gas or other thing, including component parts of
any such weapon; accessories to any lethal firearms or other weapon designed
or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the weapon.

AI L THESE ARTICLES ARE, HOWEVER, ADMITTED EXCEPTIONALLY WITH THE PER­
MISSION OF THE COMPETENT BRITISH AUTHORITY.
Ammunition containing or designed or adapted to contain any noxious
liquid, gas or other thing, and component parts of any such ammunition.
Flick knives; silver coin of the United Kingdom which does not comply
w ith the legal standard of weight of fineness;
Articles bearing devices implying or tending to imply any British Government
sanction or guarantee;

Articles bearing a counterfeit mark or a false trade description and articles
of foreign manufacture bearing a name or mark which represents or is supposed
to represent the name or mark of any manufacturer or tradesman in Great
Britain or Northern Ireland unless the name of the country in which the article
was manufactured is also shown.