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Prohibition of import

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall import into Wales any controlled Chinese peanuts.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall transport into Wales, from any other part of the United Kingdom, any controlled Chinese peanuts other than controlled Chinese peanuts which have lawfully been imported into the United Kingdom through a point of entry listed in Annex II to the Commission Decision in accordance with the provisions in the legislation in force in relation thereto in that part of the United Kingdom in which that point of entry is situated.

(3) Neither paragraph (1) nor paragraph (2) shall be taken to prohibit the import into Wales from a member State of any controlled Chinese peanuts which are in free circulation in that State.

(4) Any person who knowingly contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

(5) For the purpose of determining whether or not any person is guilty of an offence consisting of a breach of paragraph (4), any Chinese peanuts shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to be controlled Chinese peanuts.