The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Costs in respect of products redispatched or disposed of

28.—(1) The persons specified in paragraph (2) must pay on demand the costs of storing, transporting, redispatching and disposing of any product, consignment or part consignment redispatched or disposed of—

(a) under regulation 21, 24, 25 or 26; or

(b) under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979(1) in the enforcement of regulation 16.

(2) The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) the person responsible for the product, consignment or part consignment in question;

(b) where a notice has been served on the person appearing to have charge of the product, consignment or part consignment, the owner of the product, consignment or part consignment; or

(c) the person on whom a notification of seizure has been served under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979.

(3) Any cost referred to in paragraph (1) which is paid by an official veterinary surgeon, an authorised officer, the National Assembly, a local authority, the Agency or the Commissioners must be reimbursed on demand by, as the case may be, the person responsible for, or the owner of, the product, consignment or part consignment.

(1)

1979 c. 2, as amended by S.I. 1992/3095.