3.—(1) These Regulations do not apply to products introduced into England from a third country with the previous written authorisation of the Secretary of State as trade samples, for exhibition or for particular studies or analyses.
(2) Part III, with the exception of regulations 15, 21 and 25, and parts IV to IX do not apply to products whose total weight does not exceed one kilogram introduced into England—
(a)in the personal luggage of a traveller and intended for his personal consumption; or
(b)by post or carrier and addressed to a private individual in the relevant territories otherwise than by way of trade or as a trade sample;
where such products either come from a third country or part of a third country which satisfies the conditions laid down in paragraph (3) or have undergone heat treatment in a hermetically sealed container to an Fo value of 3.00 or more.
(3) The conditions referred to in paragraph (2) are that the third country or part of a third country—
(a)appears on a list of third countries or parts of third countries from which member States shall authorise the importation of the product or products concerned, established by a Community instrument in force on the date on which these Regulations are made; and
(b)is not one from which importation of the product or products concerned is prohibited by any Community instrument in force on that date.