PART 2IMPORTS FROM THIRD COUNTRIES

Interpretation of Part 23.

In this Part–

“approved place of inspection” means a place of destination of relevant material approved by the Scottish Ministers under article 17;

“Customs Code” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2913/9225 establishing the Community Customs Code;

“customs document” means a document required by the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for placing relevant material under one of the procedures specified in Article 4(16)(a) and (d) to (g) of the Customs Code;

“identity check” means an examination of a consignment of relevant material for the purposes of determining whether it corresponds to its description in the documents that accompany it being an examination of that consignment–

(a)

in its entirety; or

(b)

on the basis of one or more representative samples from the consignment or from each lot forming part of the consignment;

“working day”, in relation to the notice requirements in articles 6(3)(b) and 16(3) and the period for which material may be detained under article 14(1), means a period of twenty-four hours which is not a Saturday, Sunday, Easter Monday, 26th December if it is not a Saturday or Sunday, 27th December in a year in which 25th or 26th December is a Sunday or a day which is a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 197126; and

“working hour” means a period of one hour during a working day.