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Products
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Animals/Parts
of Animals
Any mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, coral or invertebrate
whether dead or alive or the eggs, feathers, or plumage of any
bird, horns, antlers, skin or hide of any mammal or reptile
or any part of any mammal, bird, reptile amphibian, fish, coral
or invertebrate cannot be exported without the approval of the
Director of Wild Life. Domestic animals (nonindigenous species)
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Permits are issued
to promote scientific knowledge, including suppliers to foreign
zoos, museums, in exchange for suppliers to local museums and
zoos. Fine: Rs. 20,000/-, Rs. 50,000/- or imprisonment of 5-10
years or both
* Please refer para 29.21 |
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Antiquities/Cultural
Property
Objects which date or may reasonably be believed to date from
a period prior to the 2nd day of March 1815.
Statues, sculptured or dressed stone and marbles of all descriptions,
engravings, carvings, inscriptions, paintings, writings and
the material whereon the same appear, all specimens of ceramic,
glyptic, matallurgic and textile art, coins, gems, seals, jewels,
jewellery, arms, tools, ornaments and all other objects of art
which are movable property. (Items of cultural value made of
brass, masks, furniture, statuettes.)
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Antiquities/Cultural
property cannot be exported without the permission of the Commissioner
of Archaeology.
Cultural Property Act/ Antiquities
Ordinance. |
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Dangerous
Drugs |
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Poppy plant, cocoa plant
or hemp plant or seeds, pods leaves, flowers or any part of
such plant. |
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Poisons Opium and Dangerous
Drugs Ordinance (Chap.549) |
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Any resin obtained from
the hemp plant or preparation or extracts from the hemp plant
commonly known as bhang, hashish or ganja or any other preparation
of which such resin forms a part |
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Raw or prepared opium
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Drugs, substances, articles
or preparations specified in Group BCD and E in Part I of the
Third Schedule of the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance.
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Explosives |
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Export prohibited under
explosives ordinance. (Chap.633) |
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Fish
- Live Ornamental |
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Live fish or the eggs,
roe or spawn of any live fish included in the First Schedule.
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No person shall export
except on permit issued by the Director of Fisheries and Aquatic
Resources. |
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Sinhala
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| Belonita Singate |
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Pulutta |
| Puntins cumingi |
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Polheya |
| Puntins Titteya |
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Lai Titteya |
| Puntins Nigro Fascitis |
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Bulath Sapeya |
| Rasbora Voterifloris |
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Hal Mal Dandiya |
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Minerals |
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Brick/tile/cement-clay,
sand, gravel, laterite, shale, stone aggregate coral, shell,
ball clay, kaolin, feldspar, sedimentary limestone, glass sand,
calcite, dolomite (marble), silica quartz (vein quartz), garnet,
mica, flourspar, serpent inite, magnesite, green marble, radioactive
minerals, apatiote, diension stone in raw form.
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Prohibited - Powers
delegated under the Mines and Minerals Act No.33 of 1992. Under
the Mining (Licencing) Regulation No. 1 of 1993, the Geological
Survey and Mines Bureau is the sole licensing authority for
the exploration, mining, transport, trading, processing and
export of minerals. |
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Obscene
Publications |
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Obscene writings, drawings,
prints, paintings, printed matter, pictures, posters, emblems,
photographs, cinematographic films or any other obscene objects
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Obscene Publication
Ordinance (Chap. 42) |
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Protected
Plants
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Protected plants for
the time being specified in Schedule V of the Fauna and Flora
Protection Ordinance. |
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Any flora and fauna
listed in the Appendices I, II and III of the CITES (Convention
of International Trade of Endangered Species to which Sri Lanka
is a Signatory).
Cinchona bark in any form, including Cinchona bark powder or
any other part of Cinchona tree.
Tea seed, root stump or bud of any tea plant or cutting from
or living portion of any such plant which is capable of being
used to propagate it to India, Pakistan Indonesia or any other
prescribed country.
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Export of items in Appendix
I is prohibited.
Export of items in Appendix II may be permitted on licence issued
by the Director of Wild Life Conservation if it is not threatened
in Sri Lanka.
Export of items in Appendix III may be permitted on licence
issued by the said Director.
Prohibited under Schedule "B" of the Customs Ordinance.
Cannot export except on an licence issued by the Tea Controller
under the Tea Control Ordinance (Chap.251). |
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Products which are prohibited or restricted for Import
Narcotic Drugs
Arms and
Ammunition
Garments |
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