Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B84: Inspection requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

08 July 2011 

Publication where the measure is specified

Legal Supplement (Part I) to the Zanzibar Government Gazette Vol. CXX No. 6417 of 8th July, 2011 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Zanzibar standards Act, 2011 

Country/Region applying the measure

Tanzania 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health, B: Protection of life and health of animals, C: Protection of life and health of plants and E: Protection of the environment 

Description of the measure

21. (1) The Board shall, at the request of the Bureau, appoint qualified officer of the Bureau or qualified public officer as a Standards Inspector for the purpose of this Act.
(2) Every Standards Inspector appointed under subsection (1) of this section, shall be furnish with a certificate of appointment signed by act as a Standard Inspector for the purposes of this Act.
(3) The Board may, at the request of the Bureau, cancel the appointment of the Standard Inspector as may reasonable decides.
22.(1) A Standards Inspector may, for the purposes of this Act, at all reasonable times:-
(a)Enter upon any premises at which there is or is suspected to be a commodities in relation to which any compulsory standard or standards mark exist;
(b)Inspect and take samples to any commodities or any material or substance used or likely to or capable of being used in its manufacturing, production, processing or treatment and cause, any container within which there is or is suspected to be any quantity of the commodities, material or substance, to be opened;
(c) Inspect any process or other operation which is or appears likely
to be carried out in those premises in connection with the manufacturing, production, processing or treatment of any commodities in relation to which a compulsory standard or standard mark exist;
(d)Require from any person the production of any book, notice, record, list or other document which is in the possession or custody or under the control of that person or for any other person on his behalf and which the Inspector believes to be relevant to any inspection or inquiry being carried outby him
(e)Examine and copy any part of any book, notice, record, list or other document which appears to him to have relevance to his inspection or inquiry and require any person to give an explanation of any entry in it and take possession of that book, notice, record, list or other document as he believes may afford evidence of an offence under this Act, and;
(f)Require information relevant to his inquiry form any person whom he reasonably believes to be or to have been employed at the premises or to have in his possession or custody or under his control any article referred to in this subsection.
(2) A Standards Inspector entering any premises under subsection (1) of this section shall, if so required produce the certificate issued to him in accordance with the provisions of section 21 (2) of this Act 

Reference of the measure

Part IV sections 21 & 22 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

all products 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.