Temporary admission of personal effects and goods for sports purposes
Examples of personal effects and goods imported for sports purposes
Travellers' personal effects
- clothing
- toilet articles
- personal jewellery
- still and motion picture cameras, plus a reasonable quantity of film and accessories
- portable slide or film projectors and accessories, together with a reasonable quantity of slides or films
- video cameras and portable video recorders, with a reasonable quantity of tapes
- portable musical instruments
- portable gramophones, with records
- portable sound recorders and reproducers (including dictating machines), with tapes
- portable radio receivers
- portable television sets
- portable typewriters
- portable calculators
- portable personal computers
- binoculars
- prams
- wheelchairs for invalids
- sports equipment such as tents and other camping equipment, fishing equipment, climbing equipment, diving equipment, sporting firearms with ammunition, non-motorised bicycles, canoes or kayaks less than 5.5 metres long, skis, tennis racquets, surfboards, windsurfers, hang gliders and delta wings, golfing equipment
- portable dialysis and similar medical apparatus, plus the disposable items imported for use with them
- and
- other articles clearly of a personal nature.
Goods imported for sports purposes
- track and field equipment such as:
- hurdles
- javelins
- discuses
- poles
- shot
- or
- hammers.
- ball game equipment such as:
- balls of any kind
- racquets, mallets, clubs, sticks and suchlike
- nets of any kind
- or
- goalposts.
- winter sports equipment such as:
- skis and sticks
- skates
- bobsleighs
- or
- curling equipment.
- sportswear such as:
- shoes
- gloves
- headgear and suchlike, of any kind.
- water sports equipment such as:
- canoes and kayaks
- sail and row boats
- sails, oars and paddles
- or
- surf boards and sails.
- motor vehicles and craft such as:
- cars
- motor bicycles
- or
- motor boats.
- equipment for miscellaneous events such as:
- sports arms and ammunition
- non-motorised bicycles
- archers' bows and arrows
- fencing equipment
- gymnastics equipment
- compasses
- wrestling mats and tatamis
- weight lifting equipment
- riding equipment and sulkies
- hang gliders, delta wings and windsurfers
- climbing equipment
- or
- music cassettes to accompany the performance.
- auxiliary equipment such as:
- measuring and score display equipment
- or
- blood and urine test apparatus.
Further information
If you require further information, please contact the Authorisations and Reliefs Unit.