Import Certificate Regulations

5 (1) When an application for an import certificate has been signed by the Chief of the Export and Import Permits Division or otherwise signed by or on behalf of the Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce, the application form, with all information and certifications by the applicant appearing therein, becomes an import certificate and shall not, thereafter, be altered except by or on behalf of the Minister.

(2) The import certificate and a copy thereof shall be sent to the applicant.

(3) In any proceedings under the Export and Import Permits Act, a document, purporting to be certified by the Chief of the Export and Import Permits Division to be a true copy of an import certificate, is prima facie evidence of the original document of which it purports to be a copy and that the same was issued at the time stated in the certificate and is signed, certified, attested or executed by the persons by whom and in the manner in which the same purports to be signed, certified, attested or executed as shown or appearing from such certified copy.