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RULES AND REGULATIONS

Take Out and deposit of goods

Free Exchange Money

Investments in the Free Zones

Assignment fees

Regulation of Rent in the Free zones

Preliminary Provisions

100% ownership
100% repatriation of Capital and Profits
No Personal Income Tax
No corporate tax for 15 years renewable
No currency restrictions
No restrictions on entry and stay permits.
Freedom of Labor recruitment
Abundant and cost effective raw material and production resources
Preferential markets in the regional economic group of COMESA (Common Market for East and South Africa)

When the Sudanese free Zones and Markets Company Act 1993 was declared by the President this was actually a national announcement for Sudan to penetrate the international arena of Free Zones industry in accordance, the Sudanese Free Zones Act 1994 has been structured delegating and authorizing the SFZ to adopt, implement and enhance the Free Zones Projects and investments.
Evidently, the Strategic location together with the diversified natural and productive resources of Sudan constitute and avail an attractive investment platform in the Sudanese free Zones.
Forwarding these General regulations of the Sudanese free Zones, the SFZ aims at furnishing investors with the stipulated details of the Free Zones Act 1994 elaborating the rights and duties in addition to facilities and incentives to ease the performance of investments.
Yet, the pages of this publication will always remain open to host further supporting decisions and circulars for making the bases and detailed rules for the implementation of the provisions of these regulations as stated herein in Chapter (VII) Article (49).

This Act may be cited as the Free Zones and Duty free Shops Act, 1994 adopted by transitional national assembly date July 1995 and signed by the president of the republic dated 11 August 1995
Hints of Act

The Council of Ministers shall by resolution establish free zones in the Republic of Sudan on a recommendation made by the competent Minister after consultation with the company.

The objectives of the Free Zones shall be:
To increase the national income in hard and other currencies in order to encourage, promote, diversify, and improve the quality of Sudanese manufactured and semi manufactured goods for exports and to create new markets for them,
To introduce and develop the industrial, storage and marketing technologies and to provide or train Sudanese workers therein;
To attract national and Foreign Capital for investment in the fields to be specified by the board.

The company alone shall, responsibility to manage, invest and develop and to ensure the safety of the establishments within the Free Zone".

The industrial, commercial, and services investment projects approved to established within the Free Zone shall enjoy the following exemptions and privileges:
Exemption of the project profiles from the business profit tax for fifteen years, renewable for further period or periods subject as determined by the competent minister, and such period shall begin from the year of estimation beginning of production, or the start of performance of investment activity as the case many be:
Exemption from income tax of salaries and emoluments of non Sudanese employees working in the projects located in he free zone,
Exemption of the goods imported to the Free Zone, or exported from to non-local market, of all customs duties, fees and relevant taxes, provide that such exception shall not include the local fees of services and costs charged by the board.
Exemption of buildings and other real estate in the zone from all taxes and fees,
Permission to transfer the invested capital in the free zone, and the profits gained there from, to outside the Sudan through a licensed bank within the free zone,
Exemption of the products of the industrial projects within the free zones from the customs duties within the limits of local materials, costs and expenditures incurred in their manufacturing, provided that the value thereof shall be estimated by a committee to be constituted by the board for this.

The capital invested in the Free Zones shall not be nationalized, confiscated, sequestrated, or having a receiver appointed thereof.

Subject to agreements binding on the Republic of Sudan, the transit goods across the border of the republic of Sudan may be stored at the Free Zone, under the supervision of the Customs authorities at the entrance and exit thereof.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, the company shall have the right to hire its establishments and real estates, subject to the terms to be agreed upon with the third parties.

In accordance with the powers conferred upon it by section 18 of the Free Zones Co. Act 1994, the board of Directors of the Sudanese free Zones and Markets Co., hereby makes the following regulations:

Title and Commencement These regulations may be cited as "The General Free Zones Regulations 1998" and shall come into force as from the date of signature.

These regulations shall be applied to all the free Zones established in the Sudan.>

The words and phrases contained herein shall have the same meanings given thereto in the free zones and markets Act 1994.
Unless the context otherwise requires

Goods means all different types of commodities and materials
Company means the Sudanese Free Zones and Markets Company.
Act means the Free Zones and Markets Act 1994 Board" means the board of directors of the Sudanese free Zones and Markets Company
Director means the Director General of the Sudanese Free Zones and Markets Company
Manager means the manager of the General administration of the Free Zones
Area Manager means the manager of any of the Free Zones concerned
Warehouses' means yards, buildings sheds and other constructions built or authorized to be built by the company in a free zones
Project means any commercial, industrial or service investment project approved in accordance with the provisions of these regulations
Free Zones means the Free Zones established under section 4 of the Act, and includes part of the land of the Republic of Sudan demarcated by a fence and deposited therein the goods for the purpose warehousing, manufacturing, and forwarding services, without levy of any activity carried inside the Free Zone to the law and the regulations made there under.
Depositor mean the person to whose order or in whose name the goods destined for storage or consigned and person to whom the goods are legally transferred and shall include the holder of the original bill of lading and their legally delegated agents.

The industrial, com mercial and service investment projects approved in the free Zone shall enjoy the exemptions and guarantees provided for in sections 9(2) and 10 of the Act as follows:
(a) Exemption of all imported or exported goods, other than to the local market, from all customs taxes and fees, with the exception of the services fees and costs levied by the board and exemption of all estate utilities constructed in the free zone from all fees taxes and levies,
(b) Permission to transfer the invested capital in the Free Zone and the profits thereof, outside the Sudan through an authorized Bank inside the Free Zone,
(c) Exception of the products of the industrial projects in the Free Zone from the custom fees,
(d) The invested funds in the free zone shall not be subject to nationalization, confiscation or possession or sequestration,

Any investor in the field of industry, commerce or services shall not start business in the free zones without being registered in a special register with the commercial registrar inside the free zone after obtaining the approval of the director and the board.
The director in consultation with the general commercial registrar shall take the necessary steps to establish the commercial registrar office inside the Free Zone.
The company shall take steps to keep a register to enter therein the investors registered under sub division (1) in the industrial, commercial and service fields according to the decisions of the director.

Application for the construction of any investment industrial project, shall be submitted to the director of the are manager, as the case may be, compromising all details specified in the relevant form including the required area of land for the project.
There shall be attached with the application financial deposit to be determined by the Director from time to time, such deposit shall not be refunded in case of failure to execute the project mentioned in the application provided that such deposit may be deducted from the actual amount of the rent in case of acceptance of the application and in case of rejection of the application the investor shall have the right to recover the amount of deposit.
The application shall be studied by an investment technical committee to be formed by the director to obtain its opinion concerning the project to be constructed and submit recommendation to the board.
The director shall inform the applicant with the decision of the board in relation to the submitted application according to subsection (1) within one week from the date of such decision and shall be informed with the approval giving him a period of two months of the date of such decision and shall be informed with the approval giving him a period of two months of the date of such information to complete the rent procedures and signature oft the necessary contracts and after insuring he has relieved the decision and such period has elapsed the approval decision terminate and the applicant shall lose his right on the deposit.
The applicant shall be given a period of two months to forward the technical or engineering maps for the buildings constructions utilities for the study thereof and the Director may extend such period for another month.
After approval of the maps according to the provisions of sub section (5) the investor shall start construction of the establishments within one month and the director may extend such period for another month.

Application for license to construct a commercial or service project shall be submitted to the director or the area manager as the case may be on the relevant form for approval thereof provided that a deposit as determined by the director from time to time shall be attached with the application.
When a decision of approval is made the investor shall be immediately notified so as to complete the rent procedure and signature of the necessary contracts within two months of the date of information and after insuring that he has been informed and such period has elapsed the approval shall terminate and the applicant shall lose his right on the deposit and in case the rejection of the application the investor shall have the right to recover the amount of the deposit.
If the investor desires to construct establishments of his own he shall be give a period of two months from the date of notification of the approval of the application thereto so as to submit the maps and technical specifications and such period my be extended for another month.
The investor shall not warehouse in the rented place goods of any other persons provided that the area manager may allow in special cases such warehousing and in such case the specified fees in the schedule attached to these regulations shall be collected there from.

Domestic raw materials, building materials and office materials and office furniture and fittings and equipments required by the investors for construction of buildings and factories and all accessories of construction and establishments obtained from the local market or duty paid thereon shall be permitted to the free zone according to the law and these regulations.
(2) The investor shall submit an application on the prescribed form for entering the materials provided for in the subsection (1)
(3) The investor shall keep a special register for himself in every factory or trading place in the free zone to enter therein the mentioned materials for the statistical purposes.
(4) Entering the material mentioned in sub-section (1) shall not be made for the purpose of storage or respiration outside the country in the same manner in which it was entered in the free zone.
Mortgage of the investor's Goods
9 The movable property of the investors may be mortgaged after submission of the sufficient reasons therefore and to subject to the terms and conditions made by the director.

Subject to the provisions of chapter two and section II hereof, goods may be entered taken out and deposited in the free area as follows:
(a) Bringing in foreign goods of whatever type or origin without import license into the free zone and out of for the local market, and in such case such goods shall not be subject to any fees or taxes.
(b) Local goods produced or manufactured in the Sudan may be deposited in the free zone according to these regulations.
(c) Goods in the free zone which are to be taken out for the local market shall be subject to the procedures followed in moving goods from customs area to another.
(d) Movement of goods from the custom areas to the free zone shall take place according to the procedures followed in moving the goods from one customs area to another.

11 It is prohibited to enter into the Free Zone the following Goods;
(a) Goods of origin or source, which is prohibited to deal with
(b) Narcotics accept those necessary for the manufacturing of medical drugs and pharmaceutical supplies as may be stipulated by competent authority.
(c) Firearms, ammunition and explosives except shotguns and their relevant ammunition and fireworks as may be stipulated by the competent authority.
(d) Stinking or inflammable materials as the director may specify in consultation with the competent authority.
(e) Radioactive materials of any kind.

12 (1) Shipping agents and representatives of overland, sea and air transport companies shall submit to the area manager or his deputy an application on the prescribed form, 72 hours from the arrival of the transporting means to the custom area in which the free zones is situated and attached therewith a copy or the original manifestos as prepared by the carrier company in the country of dispatch.
(2) Shipping agents and air, land and sea carrier companies shall deliver all the goods mentioned in sub section (1) addressed to the free zone without any delay it shall not be permissible to withhold any part of the goods so consigned in the means of transport or deposit or abandon them in any other place.
(3) The director may permit the transit goods to remain or unload in the free zone for a period of one week from the date of its deposit till they are withdrawn according to the procedures followed, provided that all the lapse of the aforesaid period such goods shall be transferred at the cost of the owners to the free zone for storage in accordance with he provisions of these regulations.

13 (1) the goods may be deposited in the free zone after the depositor submits an application on the prescribed form provided that the approval of the area manager or whoever he authorizes shall be obtained
(2) The depositor of good shall sort out such goods before delivering them to the Free Zone according to their respective marks. Should he fail to do so within five days from the date of the arrival of the goods, the free Zone authorizes shall carry out such sorting out and in this case he shall pay all expenses incurred by the free zone plus five percent of the value (FOB) as service administration fees and it shall apply thereto all the restrictions of the Free Zone with regard to the kind, number, weights and contents of packages.

Acceptance of goods in the Free Zone

14 (1) Goods shall be accepted in the free zone in accordance with their specifications as stipulated in the relevant documents and the depositor shall be responsible for the correctness of the statements mentioned in the documents.
(2) The free Zone shall not be responsible for any difference between the said goods and the information's mentioned in such document or statements in subsection (1) and also shall not be responsible for any shortage or variation in the content of any packages if these packages were apparently in good condition on receipt or delivery.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub section (1) if the goods were discharged by an act of error in the free zone the charge stipulated in this regulations shall be fully paid until appropriate action taken thereon.

Deposit of Goods Inside Warehouses and Open Yards

15 (1) Goods entering the free zone shall be stored inside covered warehouses upon request of the depositor, should the space not be available for such storage, they shall be deposited in open yards after obtain the depositor's approval.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) the following goods shall be deposited in open yards:
(a) Goods which are not affected by atmospheric conditions, or which cannot be placed under covered warehouses on account of their shape, volume of weight,
(b) Goods which the depositors, owners or agents thereof request in writing to be placed in those yards at their own risk.
(3) Goods under the provisions of this of this section shall remain in the free zone for the period which the depositor ask to be kept there, unless their conditions require the discharge thereof as to its nature or where the expositor fails to pay his obligations towards the free Zone or in case of contravention the provisions of these regulations.

Responsibility of the Free Zone for damages:

16 (1)The Free Zone shall not be responsible during the storage of goods therein for any damage if such damage was as a result of the inherent nature of the goods or due to the method of packing or unpacking or resulting from atmospheric heat or humidity or force measures or force circumstances.
(2) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (1) the damage deterioration or shortage which may effect any goods if it is proved that such default, damage, deterioration or shortage has occurred in consequence of any act, or negligence by any of the personnel or employees of the free zone or consequence of the instability of its warehouses for the storage of goods.
(3) The responsibility of the free zone as provided for under sub section (2) shall be determined by a committee to be formed by a representative of the depositor, provided that such committee shall submit its recommendations to the director through the administrative manager of the area manager showing the extent of the damage and the amount of the reasonable compensation.
Change of the Goods inside the free zone

17 (1) Processing operations may be conducted in the places rented inside the free zone under license from the director of the area concerned, including such operations like separating, grading, mounding, packaging, mixing, cleaning, greasing, distilling, roosting, poundering, fragmenting, cruising numbering and affixing or subsisting trade marks.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub section (1), the director may allow the performance of any of the operations provided for under the said subsection or part thereof in the general deposit areas in the free zone and in the places specified for such purpose within the free zone area.
Prohibition of some activities in the free zone

18 (1)The following acts shall not be allowed in the free zone:
(a) Kindling fire or smoking or using gas fuels in lighting in the places to be specified by the director in consultation with the area manager.
(b) Erecting installations for power generation for lighting except with approval of the director.
(c) Performing any act that causes any harm to the environment according to the relevant laws of the environment protection.
(d) Moving goods from the warehouses or the yards of the free zone to the leased premises or vice versa except with the approval of the area manager.
(e) Placing goods destined for home consumption inside the free zone or its areas or yards or in the rented premises, except with approval of the director.
(f) Retail selling, wile wholesale trade should be allied subject to the conditions provided for by section 19, hereof.
(g) Loading of workers and employees in the free zone except in places specifically assigned for this purpose.
(2) Subject to the provisions of sub section (10, the area manager may allow ships and aircrafts, to be supplied from the Free Zone with foodstuffs tobacco, cigarette, fuel and lubricants for their engines.
Assignment of the Goods

19 (1)Goods deposited in the free zone may be assigned under the assignment document form, before the competent official and under the consent of the area manager subject to the following procedure.
(a) The assignment document shall be signed by the depositor or whomever he may legally authorize, showing therein the request of deposit, type of goods, its specifications, amount and all other relevant information including the name of the assignor where her he is natural or corporate body.
(b) I n case of assignment by a corporate body, shall take place only by a legally authorized person or under the provision of the company establishment rules.
(c) Assignment of goods owned by a natural or corporate body resident outside the Sudan, shall be made by a person having legal authenticated power of attorney.
(d) If the assignment of goods is made from an investor to another investor in the Free Zone, the assignee shall be responsible towards the free zone for any fees or charges or any other fees which may be charged on such goods from the date of assignment.
(e) If the assignment of goods is made from an investor inside the Free Zone to any other body not being an investor, thereafter both the assignor and the assignee shall be jointly and severally responsible for the goods, and for any fees or charges or other charges which may be charged up to the date when such goods are discharged under original custom forms until such goods are delivered to the keepers of warehouses and general yards stored therein.
(2) The goods assigned to the Free Zone originally shall be entered in a special register and shall be disposed of in accordance with the decision of the board.
Assignment of the Installations or Rented premises

20 (1)The director upon the recommendation of the administration manager may agree that the renter may assign his rights and the rented premises to others after payment of the prescribed fees for the period of rent, provided that at the end of such period the investor shall not assign the installation constructed, to any other person and the owner of such installation shall revert to the company, except where the investor wishes to continue in his work and in this case the Director may extend the period of the contract for the period he deems fit.
(2) The renter shall not make any assignment before signature of the rent contract.
Discharge of Goods Out of the Free Zone

21 (1) Goods discharged out of the Free Zone shall be treated according to its conditions as presented to customs authority, in case where they are presented for home consumption or sent transit, not with standing any treatment made thereon as regards amendment ir charges inside the Free Zone

(3)For the home use consumption

(a) The application for the discharge of the goods out for home use shall include all details as regards type, kind, number and weight and origin thereof, such application shall be signed by the officer of the free zone and the clearance company.
(b) Subject to the discharge application, a statement of the home consumption shall be prepared and registered with custom's center concerned.
(c) The procedures of customs evaluation and analysis and importation and all other procedures shall be completed at the time of transporting the goods to the customs area, and the evaluating customs area, and the evaluating custom officer may request samples for the purpose of evaluation and analysis, and he shall have the right to review the goods sub sequential when it arrives to the customs area to ascertain the correctness of the evaluation.
(d) After completion of the procedures provided for under paragraph (C), the goods shall be carried under the supervision of the official concerned in the Free Zone and the clearance company and signed by both, and the details of the goods shall be recorded at the margin of the customs statement, and thereafter the goods shall be sent to the customs area for the completion of the customs procedures.
(e) The customs officer concerned may, when he is not satisfied with the correctness of the details made by the free zone officer and the clearance company, search the cargo actually.

Clearance Companies and Navigation

22 (1) The manifest, list of cargo or deposit requests of the goods in the free zone for the accountant of others shall be made only to the company or persons to whom the interpretation of depositor applies, and include those delegated by a legal authenticated power of attorney.
(2) The director may issue approval to the clearance liscened companies by the customs, to forward the applications of entry and exit of goods and the receipt thereof from the instead of its owners and after forwarding the official power of attorney from the owner of the goods on the prescribed form and disclosure of the specified conditions, and in this caser they shall be responsible towards the Free Zone with regard to all matters relating to the goods including the storage and service fees severally and jointly with the owner of the goods.
(3) The director, on the recommendation of the administration manager determines the number of the clearance companies to be allowed to work in inside the free zone concerned, in the light of the needs of work and in cooperation with the customs authorities.
(4) The navigation company and the company shall forward a bank deposit to the company as specified by the director as a precondition to perform its work inside the free zone, to be as a guarantee against any contravention or excess which may occur there from its employees and also as a guarantee for the collection of storage charges and services to be carried on the deposited goods in the name of the owner thereof.

Rent of Spaces
23 (1) The director, whenever he thinks necessary, may rent spaces in the Free Zone to any depositor who wishes to warehouse goods or construct installation thereon for storage.
(2) All installation works shall be carried on the rented space subject to the approved maps by the free zone and according to the technical specifications and general sound requirements made by the council.
Period of Contract in the Free Zone

24 (1) rent in the Free Zone shall be made by written contracts for a period that does not exceed:
(a) Twenty years for industrial projects
(b) Fifteen years for open areas to be rented for the purpose of construction of buildings thereon for commercial storage
(c) One year for storage in the spaces premises and general installations owned by the company inside the free zone.
(2) The rent contracts provided for in sub section 910 may be renewed on payment of the fees in addition to agreement upon the required conditions and guarantees.
Collection of fees

25 (1) rent for the land and utilities of the free Zone shall be collected on the basis of every meter of land from the renter thereof according to amounts specified in the schedule hereof.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub section (1) the board shall determine the rent of the other installations which are constructed or owned by the company.
(3) The rent shall be paid in advance as agreed upon, and the contract shall determine the value and kind of guarantee to be forwarded, provided that such guarantee shall continue valid throughout the term of the contract.

26 (1) Fees for assignment of the rented place to others shall be collected according to schedule (5) attached to these regulations.
(2) Fees for assignment or transfer of good shall be collected according to schedule (5) hereof, at the time of passing the customs declaration for the collection of the goods on the account of others as mentioned in the deposed documents in the Free Zone.
General Services Fees

27 (1) In addition to any fees to be charged under regulations there shall be charged general services fees as specified on schedule (8) hereto.
Payment of Fees

28 (1) the depositor shall pay warehouse fees an other fees once every three months, and in case of none payment in the specified period, the area manager shall notify the depositor be registered mail or by any other means to pay the fees, provided that after the lapse of one month from the date of notice the Director shall have the right to:
(a) Sell part of the goods corresponding to such fees, and if the goods cannot partially sold then it shall be sold under the supervision of a committee to be formed as
(b) follows:
i. Two representatives of the free zone,
ii. A representative for the customs,
iii. A representative for the depositor,
iv. a representative for any competent authority.
(c) The committee provided for under paragraph (a) shall prepare a separate list for the goods and take from the cost of sale all the fees and expenses resulting from the sales promotion.
(d) If the goods are not eligible for sale because of its expiry or contravene the provisions of laws and regulations, such goods shall be destroyed on the recommendation of the said committee and shall request the depositor for getting all the fees and every other expense.
(e) Payment of the fees inside the Free Zone shall be made in hard currency.

Amendment of the Schedules

29 (1) the board, on the recommendation of the director, May by a decision amend the schedules attached to these regulations.

30 (1) the Free Zone shall be exempted from the application of the Sudan employment Acts, provided that the provisions of these regulations shall be applied.
Employment in the Free Zone
31 (1) Employment of workers in the Free Zone shall take place under employment contracts between employers and employees provided that there shall not be an employment of citizens of any country that come under the resolution of boycott made by the state.
(2) In addition to any other terms, the employment contract shall include the following matters:
" The amount of the salary and the manner of payment thereof, provided that the salary shall be paid in hard currency,
" Number of working hours and additional work,
" Leaves and its different types
" After work benefits and social insurance
" The manner of terminating the contract
(3) A copy of the employment contract shall be deposited with administration of the Free Zone.
Medical Care
32 (1) the employees shall be entered in the medical care and treatment in the hospitals.
(2) In case of injury of any of the employees during the performance of his duties he shall be compensated by the employee thereof.
Conflicts and Penalties Rules

33 All companies working in the Free Zone shall make conflict and penalties rules that guarantee the rights of the workers provided that such rules shall be raised to the director for approval.
Working Hours

34 the business hours in the Free Zone shall be within the period at sunrise and ends at sun set, and the area manager may permit work during the official holidays or any other time, provided that it is not permissible to discharge the goods or transfer thereof except on the approval of the area manager and the customs authority.

35 All financial operations and all transactions between Free Zones and with others outside Sudan, shall not be subject to the provision and procedures of exchange control applied in the Sudan.

Application of laws

36 The laws in force in the Sudan shall be applied in the free Zone, to the extent that such laws do not prejudice the provisions of these regulations.

Training of Employees

37 All companies working in the Free Zone shall as far as possible offer to their employees the opportunity for training through making thereto the appropriate programs inside or outside the Sudan to raise their professional efficiency.

Formation of Committees

38 (1) The director, may form, in consultation with the competent authority and the investors, temporary or permanent consultative committees from the representatives of the bodies concerned and from specialized persons in the fields thereof.
(2) The committees provided for in the subsection (1) shall have the function of giving opinion and consultation in the matters referred thereto.

Settlement of Disputes

39 (1) unless the conflicting parties agree to the contrary, the disputes in the free Zone arising between projects or any of them and the free zone administration or any other party shall be referred to an arbitration committee or the competent court for decision thereon.
2(a) if the parties agree on the settlement of the dispute by arbitration the committee shall decide thereon to be formed from a chairman and two members representing the two conflicting parties to be selected there from.
(b) The chairman of the arbitration committee shall be selected by agreement of the two members thereof, within a maximum period of thirty days of the date of selection thereof by the two conflicting parties, if the two members did not agree in the said period of specifying a local authority to select the chairman of the committee, the chairman shall be appointed by the director and the chamber of commerce on the request of the to conflicting parties.
(d) The arbitration committee shall look into the conflict referred thereto and decide thereon in accordance with the arbitration rules provided for in the civil procedures Act 1983, unless the committee approves another applicable rules.

The competent court

40 (1) There shall be established in the free zone a first grade specialized court, in accordance with laws regulating the same.
(2) The specialized Court shall decide on conflicts arising inside the Free Zone, including conflicts arising from the activities of the projects and labor conflicts relating to the same.
(3) The decrees of the courts shall be appealed there from by any of the conflicting parties in accordance with appeal procedures prescribed by law.
Contraventions and penalties

41 (1) It is a crime of smuggling to discharge goods outside the free zone without payment of the custom fees or any other fees taxes or fees levied by the laws in force, or without completion of legal procedures applied on entry and discharge of goods.
(2) There shall be applied on the crime of smuggling and other crimes the penalties provided for in the laws of the republic of the Sudan.
(3) Whoever enters goods in the free Zone or deals therein prohibited goods shall be subject to a financial penalty equivalent to fifty per cent of the volume of the goods at the port of destination together with confiscation of such goods.
(4) Whoever intentionally carry any activity in contravention of the terms of the license given to him, and whoever assigns his license totally or in part to another person without the previous written consent shall be subject to a financial penalty equivalent to twenty five percent of the volume of contravention, together with the final withdrawal of the license, or for period not less than one year.
(5) Whoever performs any private profession or trade inside the free Zone without previous license or payment of the prescribed fees of license, shall be subject to a financial penalty equivalent to twenty five per cent of the volume of the contravention, and may be prohibited from obtaining license finally or temporarily

Computation of Contravention

42 Subject to the provisions of other laws, the director or whomever he delegates in writing may compute any of the contraventions offenders to these regulations according to the decision of the board.
Disposal of the Confiscated goods

43 The director or whoever he delegates, Amy sell by auction the goods to which a judicial decree has been made or the detached goods for any reason according to these regulations and the values thereof shall revert to the company.
Entry Permits to the free Zone

44 (1) the area manager shall issue the free zone entry permits to the employees, auditors, dealers, and investors subject to the prescribed form, and no persons other than those holding the permits to enter the free Zone.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) the area manager may prohibit any person to enter the free zone for a period not exceeding one month unless the contravention requires a longer period, and the matter shall be raised to the director to determine the period he thinks appropriate.

Combating of Smuggling

45 the administration of the free Zone in coordination of the customs forces, shall be responsible for combating smuggling from and to the free Zone.

Building and Profession License

46 The administration of the Free Zone shall be responsible for the issue of the building and profession licenses and the approval certificates covering the locations in the free zone according to the laws regulating the same after payment of the prescribed fees.

Certificate of origin

47 The administration of the free zone shall be responsible for issuing the certificate of origin for the products of factories inside the free zone as follows;
(a) certificate of origin shall be issued for products manufactured in or transferred from the free zone which the value added percentage thereof is less than 40%.
(b) If the value added percentage thereof is more than 40% a national certificate of origin shall be issued inside the free zone.

Delegation of powers

48 (1) the council may delegate all or part of its powers conferred upon it under these regulations to the director.
(2) The director may delegate part of the powers conferred on him under 6these regulations to he manger.
(3) The director may delegate all or part of the powers conferred on him under these regulations to the area manager.

Making the Bases and Rules

49 the director may, from time to time issue decisions and circulars for making the bases and detailed rules for the implementation of the provisions of these regulations

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