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141. Exemption from certain duties of goods entered for exportation. etc.
Exemption from certain duties of goods remaining on board. Exemption from certain duties of certain re-imports.
Exemption from certain duties on goods entered for exportation, etc. 4 of 1993, s. 16, 6 of 1994, s. 6, 8 of 1996, s. 6, 9 of 2000, s.10, 6 of 2001, s. 8, 7 of 2002, s.13.

Cap. 517.

 

141. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, goods entered under bond and proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner to have been duly -

(a) exported, transhipped or exported in transit; or

(b) used as stores for aircraft or vessels; or

(c) used in the blending of lubricating base oils; or

(d) used in the manufacture under bond subject to such conditions and limitations as may be specified; or

(e) exported from a bonded factory; or

(f) used in an export processing zone subject to the conditions and limitations specified in the Export Processing Zones Act; or

(g) exported from an export processing zone to any place outside Kenya,

shall be exempt from duty.

(2) Subject to this Act and to any regulations made thereunder, raw materials imported for the manufacture of -

(a) goods for export;

(b) goods for home use as may be approved by the Commissioner;

shall be exempt from duty where the users and the approved quantity of such raw materials have been gazetted:

Provided that in the case of refined sugar for industrial use, used in the manufacture of goods for home use, twenty-five per centum of the duty shall be payable.

(3) Deleted by 2 o f2002, Sch.

(4) Any person who diverts any goods manufactured for export for home use without payment of the duty due thereon shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding the higher of one million five hundred thousand shillings or three times the value of the goods, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or to both.

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