Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B81: Product registration/approval requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

14 August 2015 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Zambia Wildlife Act, 2015 

Regulation where the measure is specified

The Zambia Wildlife Act, 2015 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

B: Protection of life and health of animals 

Description of the measure

91. (1) Subject to any regulations made under subsection (1) of section eighty-six, a person who imports ivory or rhinoceros horn into the Republic shall, within forty-eight hours from the date of importation, produce the ivory or rhinoceros horn to a wildlife police officer, or to a person authorised, in writing, by the Director, for the purpose of weighing and registering the ivory or rhinoceros horn.
92. (1) If, after such inquiry as the wildlife police officer may consider necessary, the wildlife police officer or other person to whom any ivory or rhinoceros horn is produced under section ninety or ninety-one, is satisfied that the ivory or rhinoceros horn is lawful property, under this Act, of the person who killed the animal from
which it was procured, or is the lawful property of, and has, subject to the regulations made under subsection (1) of section eighty-six, been lawfully imported by the person who produced the ivory or rhinoceros horn, as the case may be, the wildlife police officer shall cause it to be weighed, marked and registered in the manner prescribed and shall thereafter return it to the person who produced it for such purpose and shall issue to that person a certificate of
ownership in the prescribed form. 

Reference of the measure

PART X : Regulations 91 ( 1) ; 92 (1) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Ivory
Rhinoceros horn 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.