Section 16: Saving of pre-shipment duties of some departments, etc.

(1) Without prejudice to the duty imposed on the inspecting agent to take responsibility for all pre-shipment inspections carried out pursuant to this Act, the following departments
and agencies of the government of the Federation, that is to say-
(a) the Inspectorate Division of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources;
(b) the Quarantine Division of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
(c) the Standard Organisation of Nigeria; and
(d) the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control,
shall continue to carry out the specific pre-shipment inspection functions which had hitherto been carried out by those departments and agencies prior to the coming into force of this Act except that the responsibility for the issuance of the Clean Certificate of Inspection provided for under this Act shall be vested only in the inspecting agent appointed under section 12 of this Act.
(2) The functions conferred on the Produce Inspection Officers under the Produce (Enforcement of Exports Standards) Act and the rules, regulations and directions issued thereunder shall as from the commencement of this Act be restricted to the following, that is-
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(a) the carrying out of pest control and fumigation at the ports of shipment; and
(b) ensuring that the material used for packaging of goods for export are of good quality.
(3) In addition to the specific functions conferred under subsection (2) of this section, the Weights and Measures Division of the Federal Ministry of Commerce shall continue
to carry out functions relating to the calibration of crude oil prior to the export thereof in collaboration with the inspecting agents appointed under section 12 of this Act.